Chapter 2: Apis and the Millenial Dragons!
After breaking the barrel, we had to fight against the storm as well as dodge cannonfire from the marine ships pursuing us from Loguetown. After getting out of the storm, I explained the six powers and the life return ability to my crew mates after having used some of them during the escape from Loguetown, as well as pacifying Sanji, Nami, Zoro and Usopp that I wouldn't have to eat as much as the old man did thanks to the my realization that using the body's ability to produce milk full of all the nutrients that I needed, which, since girls are the ones who normally use that body function, using my life return, I could use to always have enough energy to use the life return ability without having to eat as much as the old man had to. Even though men could do the same, why should they do that when they'd rather stuff their faces for a larger energy boost? I had what amounted to an infinite source of energy and nutrients inside my body, so I technically didn't have to eat at all, but why wouldn't I eat?
Two days after escaping the storm, I'm lying down in my lounge chaise on the upper deck, gazing out in wonder at the beautiful blue sparkling ocean, one hand holding my hat to my head as my hair blows in the gentle wind, ignoring Luffy's asking Nami, yet again, if we're in the grand line, for the fifth time in the past hour. Raising my head and turning it around to look at the sniper as I hear him shouting about a flock of birds off the other side, I shrug as I turn back around to gaze out at the water, settling back down onto my lounge chair as Sanji offers to cook the assumed fish that the birds are circling overhead. Watching with a raised eyebrow, I slowly turn to look as Zoro suddenly goes flying through the air above the water, yelling in surprise before landing with a splash. Blinking in surprise, I shrug as I stand up and head over to look at what Luffy pulled out of the water. As I get closer, I notice that it was a little girl that had been in the boat! Shoving the others aside, I kneel by her side, putting my hand to her forehead, before nodding and picking her up.
"She should be fine in a bit. She probably got thrown overboard in that storm two days ago." I state, as I turn to bring her inside.
-A few hours later-
I'm currently sitting at the table inside the Merry's lounge, reading the newspaper recently delivered by News Coo when I hear a startled shout from the couch that we had put the girl on. Looking over there, I smile brightly as I see that our new passenger is awake now, as I sip from my cup of coffee while watching from my chair.
"Hey there, glad to see you're awake now. Does it hurt anywhere?" I ask as I extend my hair to wave hello to her.
"You must be hungry. I'll cook up some soup for you." Sanji calls from the kitchen as Nami glances over at her,
"You must have been in a shipwreck. What's your name?"
The girl frowns disapprovingly at Nami, "When someone asks you questions, normally you tell them your name first…."
Hearing that, I chuckle as I reach out with my hair hand and ruffle her hair from across the room, before using the hand to point towards each of the others. "That's a great point. I'm Ashley. The orange haired one is Nami, Sanji's in the kitchen, and the guy you knocked out by bumping heads with is Usopp. Zoro's the scary looking one with the moss colored hair."
"OI!" Zoro shouts at me angrily as Sanji starts laughing from the kitchen at my description of Zoro's…unique…hair color.
I laugh a bit as well before I point to Luffy, who decides to introduce himself in his…usual way. "I'm Luffy, the captain of this pirate ship!"
"Ehhh?! You're PIRATES?!" the girl immediately freaks out upon hearing that we're all pirates, and Luffy, obliviously continues talking to the girl.
Sighing as I facepalm watching the interactions, before speaking up as they wonder what to do with her, "Let's leave it until tomorrow first you guys. It is getting late out." I point out as the sun is setting through the window.
A few hours later, I'm jolted awake by a scream from the kitchen that was too high pitched to be Luffy getting caught in Sanji's trap again. Heading inside and leaning against the wall, I smile when I see that Luffy had been caught by the trap as well as our guest having tried to sneak some food as well. I simply watch amused as Luffy tries to take her food when she refuses to eat, only for her to snatch a soup bowl and eat it all. The girl compliments Sanji's cooking as I head over to sit next to her,
"You were scared of us because we're pirates, right?" I ask as I sit down next to her, smiling gently. "It's a natural reaction towards pirates. Just not all pirates are bad." I state as I ignore Usopp and Zoro getting into a fistfight, before continuing, "This pirate ship isn't like those, I promise." I state before she glances between me, Sanji and the others before smiling,
"Another plate, please!"
-A few hours later-
After the midnight snacks, we all went back to bed. Suddenly there was a huge explosion that sent me flying off of my hammock in the ladies room and landing flat on my butt. Rubbing my sore ass, I scramble up and race outside, forgetting that I'm still only wearing a bra and panties. Upon getting outside, I notice the smoke coming from the kitchen and hear the girl calling everyone to breakfast. As I head to join the others, I hear a thump and turn around to see Sanji out cold on the ground. Before I could realize why, I'm suddenly grabbed and yanked back into the room by Nami. Blinking in confusion, I glance at her before she sighs and points at me, "You forgot to get dressed again...". Glancing down, I realize my lack of outfit and blush heavily, "Again?! Damnit…" I sigh as Nami shakes her head and heads back to the kitchen as I put on my sarong before heading back to the kitchen.
Upon making it to the kitchen, I open the door and head inside, just in time to see almost everyone rapidly chugging their water. Blinking in surprise as I see the rather….inedible looking lump of…something sitting on the plates. Moving over to the table, I take a piece from my plate and swallow it, chewing thoughtfully.
"Mmm….this is delicious!" I declare as the others, including Apis, staring in surprise at me as I calmly eat the very spicy food. Raising my eyebrow at them, "Umm…biofeedback, remember? I turned off my heat sensors in my mouth." I explain, causing them all to stare enviously at me as I eat my fill easily.
Glancing over at Apis as she tries to be helpful, I smile, "We all appreciate your help, Apis." I say kindly, before using my hair to dope-slap Usopp and Zoro in the back of the head as they mumble disagreements, causing a pair of 'Oww!' and 'Oi!'s to come out and making Apis giggle.
Sitting at the table, I frown darkly as Apis tells her story of how we found her in the boat. With a dark scowl on my face, I sit back, grumbling about cruel marines as she refuses to tell us why she was held captive, only that she's from Warship Island. After realizing how close the island is to where we are, Luffy decides to take her home. Smiling brightly as I return the hug from a very happy Apis, I grin widely. Looks like we're taking a detour!
-A few days later-
As we're on our way to Warship island, Usopp spots a bunch of Navy ships suddenly approaching from the rear, a huge fleet of them! Merry shakes in the water as a bunch of cannonballs fire at us and a marine with a loudspeaker warns us to surrender. Quickly standing up and heading over to look as well, I notice that Apis suddenly backs up into me. Realizing that she's shaking, I kneel down and wrap my arms around her comfortingly as she explains that the ships are the ones she escaped from!
As we prepare to engage the marines, Apis looks up at the seagulls perched on Merry's railing, before stating that a strong wind was imminent! Holding her to me, I make sure to keep her safe while my hair helps out the crew to follow Nami's orders as suddenly the predicted huge wind gust hits us and the Marines! The much larger Marine battleships are too big and heavy to ride the wind, while our beloved Merry easily catches the wind and races away.
Heading back up once the coast is clear, while Apis runs to join the others in partying over our escape, my eyes narrow upon realizing that something was wrong…and suddenly Nami lets out a terrified scream,
"AAAH! WE'RE IN THE CALM BELT!"
My eyebrows narrow as I think back to my knowledge on the calm belt, trying to dredge up the memories buried deep in my mind….
As Merry starts bobbing up and down, causing my erstwhile crew members to contemplate an earthquake on the sea…
Wait…..
EARTHQUAKE ON THE SEA?!
OH NOOOOO!
My hands immediately drop Apis back on the ground as I quickly rush into the cargo hold, searching desperately for the emergency paddle's so we can paddle out of the calm belt before THEY decide to surface…
But….I WAS TOO LATE!
As the ship shakes again, this time much worse, I hear Apis scream that something's on its way, and I burst out of the hold, holding onto all 10 emergency paddles with my hair, one for each crew member and extras if the others got damaged, but before I could throw a paddle to the other crew members…
SPLOOSH!
While the other crew members are scared, I take a deep breath to calm down, then immediately bonk the scaredy cats across the back of their heads with the paddles.
"WHEN THEY GO DOWN, ROW LIKE HELL!" I roar at them as I hold the paddles in my hair spread wide, looking like a demonic hydra with my hair spread out in 5 different ways, a paddle in each one, as I glare at them.
Terrified, a chorus of aye's come from the peanut gallery as Nami grips the mast crying tears of fear as I quickly smack her cheeks,
"Get control of yourself, Nami! We need you to navigate us out of here!" I snap at her before GLARING at the men on the ship, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING JUST STANDING AROUND, GET IN POSITION!" I scream at them, causing them to immediately jump into spots around the ship, ready to row when the Sea Kings go back down.
Unfortunately, I had forgotten that loud noises also attracts the sea king's attentions…as a huge frog suddenly leaps towards us, causing the sea king we're positioned on to shift, causing Apis to fly off the ship!
"Apis!" I cry out as I prepare to moonwalk after her…only for a rubber arm to shoot past me and grab her, yanking her out of harm's way.
Slumping in relief, I shake it off and prepare to row, only to hear Apis yelling to Luffy to move her somewhere on our Sea King perch…
As Luffy moves Apis downwards, I shout concernedly for her, along with Nami as she gets out of our view near the Sea Kings..nose…?
OH SHIT!
"Everyone HANG ON! She's gonna make it sneeze!" I yell to the others as I figure out what she wants to do and I quickly grab onto the Merry's railing so that I don't go flying.
"EEEHHH?!" Everyone else shouts at me as they immediately leap for the nearest purchase as Apis finally pulls out….that is one massive nose hair, holy shitbiscuits…and the Sea King we're perched on lets out a massive sneeze, sending us flying through the air! Thanks to my prior warning, everyone had managed to stay on Merry so we didn't all end up in the water or tossed in different directions as we land in the same area as we were in before the calm belt, without any sign of the Navy.
Smiling brightly I move over and glomp Apis, unknowingly smothering her with my massive breasts as I squeeze her tightly,
"You scared me Apis! Don't do that to us!" I wail loudly before Nami bonks me on the head, forcing me to release the poor girl as I rub my head,
"Ouch…why'd you do that, Nami?" I whine as I rub the lump on my head, while Nami shouts, "You almost smothered Apis!" Blinking in surprise, I glance at the blue faced girl and blanch, "Oh. So I did."
"GO PUT THE OARS AWAY!" Slam! "Ouch!"
"ON TO WARSHIP ISLAND!"
-About a day later….-
We're currently sailing through some thick heavy fog. Nami says we're really close to the island now….and now I can see a massive sailboat in front of us! No wait…That's Warship island!
As we sail out of the fog, I glance upwards taking in the huge island. Warship Island has a plentiful amount of huge trees dotting the landscape, but the amazing part has to be the massive mountain in the center. With huge sections of the mountain just jutting out at ninety degree angles from the ground reaching out in all directions, it's easy to see how the island got its name. With lots of huge trees and thick forests covering the mountain and upper regions, the whole island is practically one huge forest, with pathways carved into the forest to allow travel to the upper regions. The lower regions of the island are more carved out, showing that that's where the majority of the island's population lives. There are lots of rice ponds and wooden houses made of carved wood darting across the village.
As we sail in to dock, a call of pirates goes out across the island, and I glance over as we pull over and dock at the ground and throw down our ropes, that the villagers have all hidden inside their homes or grabbed a bunch of weapons and are waiting at the ground, prepared to fight off the pirates with a bunch of flimsy spears, oars, and fishing javelins. Apis goes down first, landing on the ground and telling the other villagers that we're good pirates while I leap off the ship and land on the ground, before straightening up and holding my hat to my head and standing behind Luffy and Usopp near the ladder.
Standing there listening as the villagers try to convince Apis to leave, an old man, that Apis referred to as Grandpa Bokuden invites us to his house for a small party with the old man's pork buns, apparently the best on the island. How can we turn down such a great offer?
-A few minutes later-
Sitting in Grampa Bokuden's kitchen as we wait for the buns to finish cooking, the old man starts telling us a story about the millennial dragons and an elixir of immortality. Then the old man starts embellishing the story, going on and on….and on. Before I knew it, I was falling fast asleep against the wall.
-A couple hours later….-
Suddenly a loud bang sounds as one of the villager's barges into Grandpa Bokuden's house, snapping me awake as he starts asking where Apis is, warning us that there was a Navy fleet blockading the port!
Quickly standing up getting ready to fight, I turn around and follow Nami and Luffy up to the top of the island after Nami said they had to show us something.
As we get to the top, I see Nami and Luffy enter a large cave. Following them, I go inside as well, then Zoro, Sanji, and finally Usopp follows suit. Getting to the back of the cave, I glance over my shoulder to make sure that Zoro hasn't gotten lost and turn back to face the front…and completely freeze in place, astounded and shocked at the sight of A LIVING DRAGON!
Holy snowballs in a volcano, THERE'S A LIVING DRAGON IN FRONT OF ME!
"W..wha…ah?" I babble incoherently. The other three behind me aren't much better off.
Apparently this dragon, Grandpa Ryu, was a Millennial Dragon, like the ones from Bokuden's story, and he wanted to go home to the Lost Island, and Luffy, being the captain that he is, decided to help the old dragon get home.
As Usopp turns to me at last, in his arguments and attempts to convince us not to try it, I shrug back at him, "It's a moot point anyway, Usopp. Luffy's the captain and he already decided."
Now all we had to do is figure out a way to get the dragon to the Merry. Nami told us that the best way was to build a cart. Agreeing with that, I tell her and the others that I was going to go ahead and prepare the ship and defend it from the Navy. With that, I turn and head outside, going towards the exit of the cave. As soon as I exit, I MOONWALK into the air, flying through the air and sprinting downwards towards the ship.
As I fly through the air, I notice that the Marine's had sent a squad of Marines to invade our ship! Filled with anger at the audacity of the marines, I MOONWALK from the sky directly into the center of the squad, sending them all flying before, with a whirlwind of movement, sending tendrils of hair made into points to stab into all the marines as they fly through the air, HAIR PISTOL! I snarl as I then throw the marines off the ship.
For the next few hours, while the other crew members are building Grandpa Ryu's raft, I'm busy defending Merry from boarding parties and cannon fire, Shaving and Moonwalking around as fast as I can while adding finger pistols, hair pistols and tempest kicks to the mix as well, while using my Iron Body to defend against any bullets or swords that try to strike my blind zones. Unfortunately, I can't defend against them all as, eventually they get wiser and start shooting from the safety of their ships as well with sniper fire, and I start getting hit as well.
Finally, as I'm surrounded by seven marines cornering me against the wall next to the door to the meeting hall, sniper barrels aimed above my head, Zoro and Usopp finally arrive. The marines are slowly moving closer to me, some of them with lusty gleams in their eyes as they stare at my heaving chest, before suddenly…
SLING! SPLURT!
The marines surrounding me suddenly receive large slash marks as Zoro enters the fray and easily takes them out, with Usopp cowering at the back. Zoro moves to give me a hand up, and a sniper bullet barely misses his head and pings into the deck! Suddenly in his element, Usopp quickly takes out the snipers.
Safe at last, I grin wearily at them before Zoro fills me in on the plan. Nodding, I head up and take the helm, guiding Merry around and out of the bay without almost crashing into any Marine ships, before heading around the island to pick up Grandpa Ryu and the others.
As we arrive at the cape that really does look like Usopp's long nose, I scowl at the marines as they catch up to us. Replenishing my energy with milk from my own huge breasts and circulating it inwards, I manage to regain enough energy to continue fighting as I prepare to fight again…only to see the raft shoot down the cape, into the air, slamming into and destroying the main mast of the marine ship and continuing down until stopping on the water.
Blinking in complete astonishment, I stare along with Zoro and Usopp, uncomprehending what I just witnessed before throwing my hands up and deciding to forget trying to explain anything.
After tying Grandpa Ryu's raft to Merry, we all regroup on her, as we decide on which direction to go, before we finally decide to just go.
"Set Sail…to Lost Island!"
Chapter 2 End