Okay, here's the first chapter of my first totally original arc for this series! This won't be my only original arc. I also have one planned for in between the Skypiea and Water 7 Arcs or the Thriller Bark and Shaboady Archipelago Arcs. Not sure which one yet, but I still have a lot of time to decide. Hopefully. lmao jk. Status? Listening to Imagine Dragon's Monster. Now, here are my replies to reviews on the previous chapter:

Otaku-san32: Alrighty den! Here ya go! The first part of my original arc!

guisniperman: One Piece has the most diverse characters in any anime ever, I swear. And I don't think there's a single one of 'em that I dislike. Well, for the good guys at least. I hate pretty much all of the bad guys, even if they do have some very valid reasons for being bad guys.

13-BlackCat-2020: Want the next chapter, eh? Well, then feast your eyes on THIS BABY! XD

DarkLord98: Possibly. That's highly likely, but I'm still not sure. Guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, eh?

Chapter 4 start!

Shipwrecked on Swap Island!

Enter, the Curious Village!

Previously on One Piece Full Blast:

The 'two weirdos' blinked, looked at each other, and chuckled, making my eye twitch. But I ignored them for now and went back to the Merry, gathering all my stuff back up the fixed mast and in the crow's nest. Zoro had been sleeping on the ship this whole time. It was kind of impressive, actually, how much that Marimo could nap...

When the sun was setting and Sanji had cooked dinner for everyone except me, because I had 'hogged the blue-fin elephant tuna' (I went to bed hungry that night, but tasting that delicious fish was worth it), we finally set sail. I smiled and put my hands in pockets. Today had been one crazy day, what with that storm in the East Blue, riding the current up and down Reverse Mountain, being eaten by a whale, meeting a princess, and also meeting a man who'd visited the last island on the Grand Line, and I was tired. It was time for a rest. Something in the back of my mind told me I'd need it.

I never wanted any of it to happen. Maybe this was weird, because talk to any other guy, and he'd probably be like, That'd be awesome! Especially Sanji. Perhaps not Zoro, but he's a mystery.

What didn't I want to happen, you ask? Well, read on to find out.

It all began after we disembarked from the Twin Capes, relieving Laboon of his pain and relieving Crocus of his only Log Pose. That night and the next morning was fairly normal, if you don't count Mr. 9's constant and annoying usage of the word 'Baby.' By that afternoon, I was getting so sick and tired of hearing him say that, I was ready to punch him through a wall.

And of course, that was when the craziness started up.

Before that point, it had been completely clear skies. Nothing was out of the ordinary, the Sun was shining brightly on the sea, and the Merry was heading full speed towards Whiskey Peak so we could get rid of our unwelcome (in my case) load. Then, as if somebody had thrown a switch up in the sky, it started snowing. It went from, like, 79 degree weather to freezing cold and snow in the space of about four seconds. How the hell does that even work!?

"Can somebody please tell me why it's snowing?" Nami grumbled. "It was hot and sunny just a few minutes ago!" Like me, she was bundled up in a bunch of winter gear, though still freezing her butt off. Also, we were both bunking out in the mess hall. We were staring out the porthole windows, looking in disbelief at the two morons on our ship. Mr. 9 and Vivi had hid in here as well, wrapped in blankets and sipping cups of warm cocoa.

"B-B-B-Beats me," I stuttered, shivering violently. "I j-j-j-just wanna know h-h-how those two b-b-bakas can still have so m-m-m-much energy in the f-f-f-freezing cold... with n-n-n-no sweaters on or a-a-anything!" The cold seemed to be affecting me worse than anyone else, or maybe I was just being a wimp.

Outside, on the snow-covered lower deck, Lucy and Usopp were building snowmen. Well, Lucy was building a snowman. I wasn't sure what Usopp was building. Was it a snow sculpture or a mermaid masterpiece? I wasn't sure which. But one thing was for sure: He had to be the world's best artist. I was actually quite amazed at the sniper's skill. Lucy's misshapen Frosty looked like a rotten banana peel by comparison.

She stuck a few wooden poles in the snowman for makeshift arms and a nose, then patted her creation proudly. They exchanged a few words which I couldn't hear from in here, then our captain hit the back of the snowman and a pole shot out of it... right through the top part of Usopp's masterpiece.

The lying sniper face-faulted, then sent Lucy a death glare and started destroying her snowman. This somehow turned into an all-out war with Lucy dropping a snowball the size of a boulder on Usopp and the sniper pelting her with hundreds of snowballs.

"I don't know," Nami said. "It's beyond me. But what's wrong with you, Damon? Your lips are turning blue."

I blinked and looked at my reflection in the window. "T-T-They are?" I frowned, but couldn't see anything because frost was building on the porthole.

Sanji was shoveling snow on the upper deck, tossing it into the sea, and he turned to us with hearts in his eyes. "HOW LONG SHALL I CONTINUE MY SNOW SHOVELING OF LOVE, NAMI-SAN?" he cooed loudly.

"UNTIL IT'S ALL GONE," she called back.

Mr. 9 spoke up. "Hey, you two. Doesn't this ship have any heating?"

"I'm cold," whined Vivi.

"U-U-U-URUSAI!" I barked at them, tic-pulsing. "I B-B-BET THAT N-NEITHER OF YOU C-COMBINED ARE AS C-C-C-COLD AS ME!"

Nami turned to them with her terrifying demoness glare. "YEAH, WHAT DAMON SAID! YOU'RE OUR GUESTS HERE! IF YOU WANNA WARM UP THEN GO HELP SANJI SHOVEL SNOW OR SOMETHING!"

BOOM. Something crashed outside, making me jump about a mile, and we both peered out the window in surprise. Lightning was flashing around us. Personally, I was a bit surprised our ship wasn't picking up the electric shock carried through the ocean.

"Lightning?!" Nami complained. "First snow, now lightning! What the hell is wrong with this stupid sea?"

A strong wind started blowing, knocking off some of the snow that had built up on the lookout post. (Usopp had covered it with a protective canvas sheet so that my stuff wouldn't get ruined.)

"I've never seen anything like this. One minute it's a cloudless sky, the next it's a blizzard! It's like the normal rules of nature don't apply here. Just like... Crocus-san warned us."

I rubbed my hands together and blew on them, trying to get any warmth possible. "W-W-Welcome to the Grand L-L-Line, sister," I told her, shivering miserably. "W-W-W-Where pretty much everything is c-c-crazier than an a-a-anime fangirl who j-just ate twenty packets of S-S-Skittles."

I don't think she really understood the comparison, but she shrugged it off.

"So what do you think?" Vivi asked smugly. "Ready to turn back yet?"

"You bakas have no idea how to survive the Grand Line, baby," Mr. 9 added, smirking.

I sweatdropped. "W-W-Weren't you two j-just complaining about h-how cold you w-w-were a few seconds ago?"

Vivi frowned at me, but ignored the comment and turned to Nami instead. "I noticed you haven't steered for a while. Is that really wise?"

"I know our heading. I just checked it a while ago" the redheaded navigator retorted. But she went outside and checked her new Log Pose anyway, then suddenly screamed. She was doing a lot of that lately, and it was really hurting my ears."No way! Make a hard turn one-hundred and eighty degrees!" she ordered, sounding panicked. I shivered violently and cursed her. She'd neglected to close the door, which only served to make me colder. "Hurry!"

"180 degrees? Why?" Usopp said, looking confused. He had frozen in position, about to throw another snowball at Lucy.

Lucy tilted her head. "Did you forget something?"

"No, you baka! We're off course! I thought the waves were calm, but the current turned us completely around! Damon, why didn't you tell me?"

I gulped and made myself as small as I could in the nearest corner. "G-Gomen! But whenever s-s-something unnatural is h-happening with the ocean, I g-g-get a cold, tingly f-f-feeling in the back of m-m-my neck, and I c-can't tell whether my neck is c-c-cold from the sea or t-t-the temperature now!"

"Dammit! Well, it's not your fault, I guess."

I sighed in relief. For the moment, I had been spared.

"Are you really a navigator?" said Vivi, making Nami glare at her. I stared at the desert princess in awe. There weren't many people in the air who could be unaffected by Demoness Nami. "On this ocean," she continued, "the sky, the wind, the clouds, the waves... you can't trust any of it. The only thing you can trust is the Log Pose. It is your best friend. Get it now?"

Nami tic-pulsed and quite literally kicked the two out of the kitchen, shouting, "QUIT LECTURING ME, GET YOUR ASSES OUT THERE, AND HELP US!"

I sweatdropped. "You n-need to take a s-s-serious chill p-p-pill."

"Gomen. I don't do drugs."

Nami: 1, Damon: 1.

She went back outside and leaned over the railing, shouting orders. "Turn the braceyard! Catch the wind coming off of the starboard bow! Turn the ship 180 degrees to port! Usopp, take the aft sail! Sanji-kun, keep shoveling! Damon, since you're too cold to go outside, man the rudder, will you?"

"R-R-Roger that, Admiral N-Nami."

"I'M NOT A MARINE!"

"G-Gomen..."

"You there!" she said to Vivi and Mr. 9. "Keep it up, and don't slow down!" They were doing something off the side of the ship, but from my position, I couldn't hear what it was. All I could here was Mr. 9 complaining about Nami being a bitch.

"W-W-Well which would you r-rather have h-h-happen?" I shouted to him. "H-H-Have the ship s-sink, or make it o-o-out of here alive?"

That shut him up pretty quickly.

"Oi, matte!" Usopp said. "The wind's changing!"

"Nani!?" Nami shrieked. "No way!"

The temperature seemed to rise a little. "This is the first sign of spring, baby!" Mr. 9 reported, much to our navigator's disbelief. But it appeared that he was right. The snow was melting and my body was slowly stopping its uncontrollable shivering.

She barked some more orders at us, then Usopp barked at Zoro, "Oi, Snowman! Quit sleeping and start helping, will ya?"

I pulled the helm in the direction Nami told me to. "You're not serious. That bastard is still sleeping?!"

We dashed around the ship some more and shed our winter gear, now that it wasn't needed. Suddenly the wind started changing direction yet again, and when I peered out of the mess hall (the helm was located in here, as well as the table where we ate), I saw a humongous ice berg and suddenly remembered the Titanic story. Then a fog so thick you could cut it with a knife wrapped around us.

"What is WRONG with this ocean!?" Nami complained in horror.

"We're gonna ram into an ice berg if we don't do something quick!" I reported.

"WE'RE GONNA SIIIIINK!" Usopp shrilled.

"There's a pod of dolphins out there!" said Lucy excitedly. "Let's go get 'em!"

"URUSAI, YOU!"

I desperately yanked the creaking rudder to the side, at the same time throwing my thoughts to the ice berg and telling it to either move or melt. But it was like there was something blocking me from reaching the 'mind' of the giant ice block. When I tried to push it to my will, my brain suddenly felt cold. I shifted my thoughts down to the ocean, giving up on the ice berg, and told it to create a current that would carry us around the ice berg.

Nothing happened for a while, though, and Nami came over to the helm, helping me push with all our might. Finally, the ship changed direction. Just in time, to, because a second later and we'd have at least grazed against it.

"Oi, water's coming in below deck!" Lucy told us.

Er, scratch that. Spoke too soon.

Nami turned to me. "Damon, go down there and command the water to get out of there. Then stop more from coming in while Usopp patches up the hole."

"On it!" we said.

When the two of us had completed our job, we ran back above deck, where Sanji had brought out a plate of onigiri, better known as rice balls, and told us to eat up. We immediately sucked down as many as we could before Lucy got to them. Meanwhile, the weather had changed yet again, and was now storming violently. Luckily, though, I felt like the onigiri were giving me energy.

Sanji slapped me over the head as I stuffed my face with rice balls. "Bastard, you're taking too many!"

"Once again, Lucy's eating more than I am!" I pointed out. The 30,000,000 belli girl had stuffed her rubbery mouth with as many onigiri as she could, and the love cook was conveniently ignoring this fact.

We finished the rice balls and tried to pull the sails to port so that we could get back on course, but Nami screamed and there was a ripping sound from up above. When a looked up, I could see a nasty tear in the sail. My eye twitched. That was not good.

Suddenly my neck started tingling, but this time it wasn't from the cold, because there was no cold. I could feel the ocean start to get choppy, and I shouted, "Minna! The ocean's getting angry! I think there's a big wave coming or something!"

"What the hell!?" everyone moaned - - everyone except for Zoro, that is, who was still sleeping.

Usopp cried anime tears. "Damon, please save us."

I tugged at my rope harder in frustration. "I can't do anything this time! It's like the ocean is deliberately trying to wreck our ship! It's so angry that it won't bend to my will!"

That was when we saw the wave - - and let me just say that it was the biggest wave I've ever seen, including the ones from that smallish hurricane that hit New York City a couple of years ago. It had to be at least thirty feet tall, and it completely dwarfed the Going Merry. It rose up to the sky in three seconds, not even fifty feet away from us.

"It's blotting out the sun!" Lucy commented in awe.

"It's heading right toward us!" I gasped in horror.

"WE'RE GONNA DIE!" moaned Usopp.

Sanji hit me in the head. "Create a current to get us out of here already, bastard!"

"I ALREADY TOLD YOU I CAN'T DO ANYTHING! THE SEA'S TOO ANGRY AND I'M NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH YET!"

"What about that hurricane you created in Loguetown?"

"I DON'T KNOW HOW I DID THAT, AND ANYWAY, HOW WOULD THAT HELP US HERE!?"

Vivi poked her head up from the trap door that led down to the bowels of the Merry and said, "We've sprung another leak below - - that wave's gonna crash into us!"

"WE KNOW!" everyone shouted - - again, everyone except Zoro. I swore that I was gonna kill him if we ever made it out of this alive.

And then the wave crested and fell down all around us, and I don't remember anything else except blackness.

The first thing I noticed when I came to was that there was a pleasant smell of fruit in the air. What was it? Strawberries? Raspberries? I couldn't quite place it, but it was fragrant and calming, and I let out a deep breath. I opened my eyes a little to see sunlight glaring down in my eyes. I winced and put a hand up to shield my face. Then I sat up and looked around.

"Where am I...?" I croaked quietly, wincing again. My throat was dry and it hurt to talk. That must mean I'd been knocked out under the sun for quite a while. And my surroundings were unfamiliar. The Merry was nowhere in sight. I wasn't on it, and I couldn't see it. I was sitting on a soft, sandy beach, the salty waves lapping at my feet. I had an inkling of a suspicion that I'd be a lot worse off if I hadn't washed up so close to the sea.

"Must be on an island..." I murmured. That much was quite obvious. But I wondered what had happened to the others. Had they made it here? Had they ended up somewhere totally different? Or had they drowned? One thing was for sure; I definitely didn't remember this happening in the anime.

"Look, Lucy, it's Damon!" said a familiar voice from somewhere behind me. I grinned and turned. Sure enough, there was Usopp running toward me from the direction of a large forest. None other than our captain was following behind him, grinning widely.

"Oh, thank the gods!" I said in relief. "You two are alright! This wasn't in my vision, so I wasn't sure."

Lucy waved. "Oi, Damon! Everyone else is fine, too! We all ended up here and the others are in a village farther inland! Come on, it's really cool!"

"That's a relief. What about the Merry?" I croaked, getting to my feet and running to meet them.

"She got beat up when we landed, but a carpenter we met is repairing her," Usopp reported. "By the way, we're on this place called Swap Island. The folks are really nice and are mostly descendants of pirates, or retired pirates themselves, but it's kinda strange."

I blinked. We started walking into the forest. "How so?"

"Everyone seems afraid of something," Lucy explained. "Weirdos."

I raised my eyebrow. Everyone here was afraid of something? Usopp had said that everyone here was related to pirates in some way or pirates themselves, so it couldn't be that they were afraid of us. That must meant that something or someone on the island was scaring them.

Our straw hatted captain grinned. "I smell adventure!"

"Only you, Luce," I sighed. "Even when we're shipwrecked on island that we weren't supposed to be on, you still want to go on an adventure."

Usopp face-faulted. "Oh, right! By the way, the Log Pose won't reset itself for another week, so we have plenty of time to restock and fix our ship. Some of our supplies got lost when that wave hit and carried us here."

"Come on!" Lucy called, already far ahead of us and running down a path through the forest that I hadn't noticed before. "Niji Town's this way~!"

Niji? That was the Japanese word for 'rainbow.' Strange name for a town. Was everyone there gay or something? Maybe that was it. They were afraid that we would find out they were all gay and make fun of them for it.

As we walked down the path, I took in as much of the scenery as possible, though the scratchiness of my throat was a constant reminder that I needed a drink as soon as possible. The forest was made up of random and oversized deciduous trees. They were so big they made me feel like Alice in Wonderland, after she'd shrunk down. Birds chirped in the treetops and flew overhead. A blue-colored fox scampered across the dirt path, chasing a mouse the size of a small dog.

"Weird place," I commented.

Usopp shivered. "I know. There might be monsters here! I'm never coming out here again!"

"Wimp."

Finally, we emerged from the path and came across a small, neat, bustling town. Everyone was going about their everyday duties - - hanging up the laundry, watering the garden, bargaining for groceries - - but my crewmates were right. There was a strange air hanging over the place, as if everyone was scared of something. I wondered what it was. All in all, Niji Town reminded me of an English village from the Dark Ages, except with more money and no corpses lying everywhere.

An short, middle-aged man walked up to us as we strutted down the streets of town. He wore a blue coat over a yellow shirt and jeans. His face was a little feminine - - slightly pointed chin, blushed cheeks, even the soft eye color. It was weird and it made my eye twitch. Now that I thought about it, all the men I'd seen here looked slightly feminine, whereas all the women looked somewhat masculine.

"Ah, Lucy-chan, Usopp-san," he said. Even his voice was higher and softer than usual. "I see you've found your friend. That's good. None of your crew has encountered the Lady yet. That's even better."

I raised my eyebrow farther. "The lady? What lady?"

"I shall explain to you all when everyone has gathered in my shop."

"Your shop?"

Usopp took pity on me. "He's the doctor and he's got a clinic here. His name's Doctor Konoha."

"Oh. Can I have some water?"

The man nodded. "I have a water fountain in my shop. You can use that. Now, come, and I shall explain to you why it is best you leave the moment you can, before the Lady finds out she has more - - ah, visitors."

And there you have it! The first episode of my original arc complete! What's the thing Damon didn't want to happen to him? What's the reason why all the people on Swap Island are scared? And just who the hell is that Lady person? Most of these questions shall be answered next chapter, and the one that isn't should be pretty obvious by the end.

Damon: That freaky weather was NOT FUN.

Usopp: I have a case of If-I-go-into-the-forest-one-more-time-I'll-die disease! It's a real dilemma, you know!

Lucy: I'm going on an adventure~! I'm going on an adventure~!

Usopp: Didn't you hear Doctor Konoha clearly say we should leave as SOON AS POSSIBLE?!

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