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A/N: Hooooooooooly crap I haven't done this in a while. I hope anyone reading these will take the time to look at my humble little story and give me some reviews/favorites/subscribes.
"We made it, I can't believe we made it! I thought for sure we were gonna die!" Luffy exclaimed, laughing, while the entire crew blanched at their captain's lack of faith.
Everyone patted each other on the back, whooped and hollered with glee, and felt extremely satisfied to have made it up Reverse Mountain alive. That is, until Sanji broke the silence.
"Nami-swan, my dear, is it normal for there to be a mountain in the middle of Reverse Mountain, blocking our path?"
The rest of the crew turned to where Sanji was pointing, obviously confused as to why there was a huge rock formation in the middle of the sea.
What little color there was in Brett's face drained away as he saw what no one else saw.
"Guys…. That's not a rock. That's—" Before he could even finish, everyone else noticed it too.
"—A WHALE!?" They cried in unison.
And so it was, a giant whale, bigger than anything the crew members had ever seen before, coming between them and the Grand Line. Immediate panic ensued. Usopp and Luffy ran around screaming, Brett and Nami stood deathly still, not knowing what to do, and Zoro took a nap, a look of complete disinterest on his face.
"We're heading straight for it, there's no way we can veer around it, we're going to crash and sink at this rate!" Nami said, a note of panic in her voice. At that point, Brett took off running and jumped straight off the ship towards the whale. The winds picked up and he hovered in midair, coming between the ship and the giant creature.
"I might be able to slow us down or even stop us, but a back-up plan would be nice just in case." Brett turned to face the ship and threw his hands out straight. Wind howled past him, rushing over the entire crew with tremendous force, flattening them to the ground. They slowed down a marginal amount, but the ship was still bounding headlong towards the whale.
"There's not enough time to slow it down! We're gonna cra—" Nami was cut off by Luffy's voice from below decks.
"Brett! Get out of the way!" He called.
Instantly, Brett dove aside, hoping whatever plan Luffy had was better than his.
And that's when a cannon shout out of the front of the Merry, pummeling the whale right in the belly.
"L-L-LUFFY!" The entire crew screamed. He came out from below deck grinning like an idiot. And he was immediately strangled by Nami.
"ARE YOU TRYING TO GET THAT THING TO NOTICE US WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH BECAUSE I SWEAR I WILL GRANT IT I CAN'T—"
"Nami…." Brett said, awestruck. Nami looked up in time to see the Merry glide harmlessly into the whale, gently bouncing off its belly, and breaking the head off of Merry in the process.
Nami was dumbfounded. "Luffy actually did it, he actually…."
Before Nami could praise Luffy for his accolade, he managed to completely screw everything up.
"HOW DARE YOU BREAK MY SPECIAL SEAT!" He howled in rage, extending his arm and, in what was known by Brett as the 13th stupidest thing Luffy has ever done, punched the whale straight in the eye.
"Luffy…" Brett whimpered.
"…what…" Usopp.
"…have…" Sanji.
"…you…" Zoro.
"…DONE!?" Nami screamed, trying to strangle him again.
"BRING IT ON WHALE, I'LL KICK YOUR ASS FOR BREAKING MY SEAT!" Luffy shouted, challenging the whale to a duel.
"Oi! Quiet, dumbass!" Brett, Zoro, and Usopp said in unison as they punted Luffy away.
The crew waited, tense, as they attempted to pass by the whale, hoping it didn't notice a rubber fist hit it smack dab in the middle of the eye. Then it's enemormous black orb of a pupil shot directly downward and looked them dead on.
"CRAP, IT SEES US!" They all shouted. Except Luffy, who was still livid over his seat.
The whale let out a deep, low rumble, and opened its mouth, attempting to suck the ship into its gaping maw.
"This is where we die," Zoro said, as the ship trudged into the depths.
As the ship was being pulled in, Luffy was caught off balance and toppled over the side, narrowly managing to avoid death by extending his arm and grabbing a tooth at the last second. From the tooth, he rocketed his way up on top of the whale.
The crew, meanwhile, was stuck being pulled inside the ever-darkening mouth of the whale.
"There's no way I'm dying in a whale's stomach," Nami proclaimed, still furious at the now absent Luffy, "if Luffy survived falling off the ship, I'm killing him."
"You're perfectly safe with me, Nami-swan! Just let me hold you close and no harm will ever come to you," Sanji replied.
"Oi, Sanji, that's me," Usopp said. Brett suppressed a laugh.
Luffy meanwhile, had made it to the top of the whale, where he was furiously pounding on its head.
"Hey, whale, give me my crewmates back! We have an adventure to go on! I swear I'll kick your ass if you don't give them back right now!" At that instant, the whale, now done swallowing the Merry and Luffy's crew, began to submerge.
"Stop, what do you think you're doing!? Don't you go underwater without giving my nakama back! STOP!" Luffy, desperate, looked around for anything that could help. And that's when he saw the hatch.
A hatch, built into the top of the whale.
"Eh, a hatch? Where does this go?" He hastily opened it and climbed in, right as the whale submerged.