HI! So this is chapter 7 and today we do will finally reach the Grand Line! (Cheers!)
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ASL Pirates
Chapter 7: Reverse Mountain, finally at the Grand Line
"This is why I told you we had to get out from here quickly! This place is a den of Sea Kings!" Nami said still holding on to the mast crying and as she did the rest of the crew rushed for the paddles and got to their positions.
"Alright as soon as this thing dives down back in the sea we row our arms off from here, got it!?" Zoro said obviously as stressed and afraid as everyone else.
"GOT IT!" Everyone else shouted. Afterwards most of the Sea Kings started to dive again in the water except for the one they were on top of, actually, instead of diving, it started making weird movements and noises that worried everyone until they understood what was going on, it was going to sneeze!
"WHAAAAA!" Everyone screamed while they were launched flying through the sky and as they did a frog-like Sea King came out of the water making them bounce and throwing some crewmates overboard, among them Usopp, Rocky, Akame and Cat.
"HOLD ON TO THIS!" Sabo shouted as he extended his pole to grab Cat and Morti did the same with his shovel to grab Akame from their ship.
"USOOOOOPP!" Luffy also shouted to his crewmate as he threw his arm to bring him back to the ship.
"I've got you Rocky!" Ace said before propelling himself by turning the bottom half of his body on fire and catching him before propelling back into his boat.
"Ahhh!" Most of the crew had given a mild yelp as they had landed back on the water but suddenly they heard something else.
"WAAAA!" It was Ace's crew, apparently their boat hadn't been able to bare the crash on the water and had broken. And sure enough they were now on the water and Mele was keeping Ace from drowning but, unfortunately, Rocky had started to sink.
"Please someone save Rocky! I can't carry them both and Rocky is as heavy as a rock!" Mele said trying to swim with Ace at the moment that Sabo, Zoro and Sanji jumped on the water.
"Let me help you." Sabo said as he reached where they were and motioned to get hold on Ace.
"Mele-chwan!" Sanji said as he reached them. "Let me carry you back to the ship."
"No." She plainly said ignoring the cook as she made sure Sabo had a good hold on her captain.
"Sanji you should have gone help Zoro with Rocky, it is as Mele says, Rocky's as heavy as rock thanks to his Devil Fruit." Sabo said obviously concerned that Zoro wouldn't be able to pull Rocky out and they would both drown but he could argue that they heard a splash.
"You sure are heavy!" Zoro said as he came out of the water, everyone assumed carrying Rocky, but no, to the surprise of Mele and Sabo, actually he was pulling Rocky out with one hand. 'How strong is he?' is what went through Sabo's and Mele's mind.
"Guys you should all get on board!" Nami call out from the Going Merry. "There's still a storm raging."
"As you wish Nami-swan!" Sanji said and everyone else followed and met on the Going Merry's deck where Ace and Rocky were now wailing.
"Hunter!" Rocky and Ace said in between sobs.
"Jee it's not as if you sailed that long on it." Mele said referring to the ship.
"Wait how long have you been part of Ace's crew Mele?" Sabo asked noticing he didn't really knew how the formation of Ace's crew had come even though they were together on Loguetown for about a week. When he thought about it they had mostly been eating and arguing about Luffy. They hadn't talked about their own adventures yet.
"Well it has been like 6 months since I joined maybe." Mele said obviously not quite sure about the fact.
Sabo only sweet dropped at the thought. 'For how long did this two fools sailed alone? How come they didn't drown already?' But he decided against commenting since they looked truly distressed.
"You don't get it Mele!" Ace snapped still sobbing.
"Yeah! This was like our umpteenth ship!" Rocky commented as well.
"Wasn't it the fiftieth?" Ace asked suddenly changing his manner of speech.
"No mate, by my calculations you burned the fiftieth long before meeting Mele." Rocky said now calm to Ace.
"Then which one was this!?" Ace retorted.
"That's why I called it umpteenth mate!" Now both men were having an idiotic discussion no longer grieving about the ship so the rest just ignore them.
"Wait Mele, wasn't it your ship originally? Shouldn't you be a little more distressed?" Usopp asked to the girl conscious he'd be devastated if he'd ever lose the Merry, after all it was the ship Kaya had given to him.
"The truth is I don't have that much of an attachment to it, I just bought it to go out fishing, it's not as if we had that much of a relationship with the boat, those two are only distressed because they're like a bad omen to any ship they step foot on." After say this no one could say anything before the loud shout came roaring.
"YOU TWO GET OFF OF THE MERRY!" Surely enough it was Usopp not wanting to lose the Merry to the bad luck of the two but no one paid mind to him as another shout came in.
"AH! I just got it! We're really going to climb up the mountain!" Nami said now at the front of the ship with the others having spent the time since they landed looking over the map over and over.
"What, you're still talking about that bossy-lady-san?" Morti asked.
"We're really gonna climb up the mountain!" Nami said ignoring Morti. "It must be due to the strong currents. If strong currents from the four seas were to crash on that mountain then they'd drive the waterway up and at the very top they'd merge and go out onto the Grand Line. Since we're already on the current the only thing we've to worry about is steering properly." Nami kept going now pointing ahead. "Reverse Mountain is a winter island so currents that hit its edge will travel down to the bottom of the sea."
"So basically it do is a mystery mountain?" Luffy said quite proud of his "discovery".
"I've never heard of a ship going up a mountain." Rocky said in disbelief.
"I've heard a bit." Sanji said.
"About the mountain?" Now Zoro was asking him, curious as if it was really a fact they'd go up a mountain.
"No, about the Grand Line. Supposedly half of the people die just from trying to get in."
"We're going to die then?" Morti asked grimly. "Should I build coffins for us all? I don't think we've time for that. Should I just burn the ships?"
"Don't kill us so easily!" Sanji said kicking him on the head.
But everyone stirred their attention to the front when they heard someone else yelling.
"I SEE A MYSTERY MOUNTAIN!" Luffy shouted from the figurehead of the Merry.
"WAIT! WHAT'S THAT HUGE SHADOW!?" Usopp was now shouting too.
"IT'S HUGE!" And Mele did too.
"So that's the Red Line!?" Ace said loudly also impressed.
"I can't even see the top because of the clouds!" Sabo was astonished as well by this but he realized something. "Get a good grip of the rudders so we don't get dragged right down under! We don't need to lose another ship before reaching the Grand Line!" Now Sabo was commanding his crewmates.
"Just leave it to us!" Usopp, Sanji, Morti and Rocky said. The former two took the Merry's rudder and the later the Free's one.
"I can't believe it the ocean is really going up the mountain!" Zoro said watching the entrance.
"We're veering of course!" Luffy shouted worried that they were going to crash.
"Turn to the right!" Ace commanded and all the people in charge of the rudders started pushing with all their strength, which did nothing to change the course of the ships but it did broke the rudders.
As everyone started panicking Luffy ran at the front of the Merry and Ace ran to the Free.
"Gum-Gum…"
"Fire…"
But brothers started shouting before jumping out of the ship, Luffy jump at front of the Merry while Ace jumped to a side of the Gull.
"…Balloon!" Luffy avoided the Merry from colliding against the pillar with his body getting it back on track.
"…Fist!" And Ace propelled the ship back on the waterway avoiding the crash as well.
"WE'RE SAVED!" Almost everyone else shouted.
"Luffy grab onto my hand!" Zoro shouted at his captain whom throw his hand at him being able to get back on the ship that way.
"I've got you!" Sabo said holding out his pole so that Ace could grab it and pull him back on the ship.
Once everyone was back on board they all cheered and celebrate finally being about to enter the Grand Line. They rushed up through the water way and were thrown in the sky when they reached the top to fell in to another waterway next.
"So this is the Grand Line!? The greatest sea in the world!" Luffy said from the figure head of the Merry. "Full speed ahead!"
*Buooooh*
"Hmm did you hear something?" Zoro asked the rest of the crew as they were going down the mountain.
"It must be the wind. The terrain here is quite odd after all." Nami replied him not giving it much thought to the noise.
*Buooooh!*
"Wha… what's that?" Now Akame was also wondering what that noise was while she tried to look over the board to get a better look.
"There's a mountain up ahead Nami!" Usopp shouted as he scanned what was at front.
"A mountain? That's impossible after passing the Twin Capes up ahead we should met with only sea!" Nami said. She was so confused 'what was going on, she's the one who should know about weird mountains but she didn't knew there was a mountain there'.
"Hey what's going on?" Ace called out from the Free since Sabo, Rocky, Morti and himself had stay there and where unable to get back to the Merry for the time being.
"There's a mountain up ahead apparently." Mele said nonchalantly.
"WHAT!?" Everyone on the Free shouted.
*Buooooh*
Everyone stared at front to the mountain for a second and they kept hearing that noise and suddenly it kicked for all of them, it was no mountain.
"THAT'S A WHALE!" Everyone shouted at the sight of the humongous animal ahead of them.
"What do we do!?" Usopp shouted in utter awe.
"Should we fight!?" Luffy asked.
"Are you kidding!? How the heck are we supposed to fight something like that!?" Sanji snapped at his captains antics.
"Then should I hunt it!?" Mele said with an excited look on her eyes.
"Of course not! What the heck is wrong with you two!?" Nami shouted on Mele's ear.
"Bossy-lady-san is so mean." Mele said under her breath before hiding behind Cat.
"If you would hunt it we would get fish for so much time!" Now Cat's eyes were the ones showing how excited she was.
"Yosh! So we will hunt it!" Luffy said lifting his fists in the air.
"YAAAY!" Both Mele and Cat cheered with him.
"Shut up you three morons!" Sabo shouted from the free angered by how foolish they were. "Before we can hunt it we need to stop the ship from crashing onto it!"
"Yeah we can't eat it if we're crashed onto it!" Ace said as well from the other ship.
"The…they …they're all I … idiots…" Akame-chan said shocked by the remark of team "to-vent-in-hunt-the-whale-to-realize-the-danger".
"Just ignore them!" Nami cried well she was actually crying still afraid of the thing.
"Nami-san! I can't see its eyes!" Sanji scared as well.
"Maybe it hasn't noticed us yet then!" Usopp said coming out from his hiding spot behind the mast.
"There's and open up ahead! Turn the ships to the left!" Zoro shouted from the deck to everyone to try and get out from the danger.
"BUT THE RUDDERS ARE BROKEN!" Rocky shouted from the Free remarking the problem they were in.
"Well we've to do something! We've all got to help!" Zoro said and Sanji, Usopp and himself rushed to try and move the Merry's rudder while everyone in the Free did the same.
"This is useless. I should start on the coffins." Morti said from the Free as they were unable to move the rudder.
"Shut up and pull!" Rocky snapped at him.
"I'VE GOT AND IDEA!" Luffy shouted from his spot before rushing into the front room of the Merry.
After hearing his little brother's remark Sabo and Ace looked at each other and they both said the same thing at the same time.
"I've a bad feeling about this!"
*KABOOM!*
"THE CANON!" Almost everyone cried in fear as tears started flowing down their eyes when they heard the shoot. Meanwhile Ace and Sabo just face palmed having thought as much when Luffy said he had "an idea".
"Good! I wonder if the ships stopped now." Luffy said from the canon room after shooting.
Surely enough the Merry had slowed down but the push from the Free still made it had a minor crash with the whale and broke the figure head that fell onto the main deck of said ship, enraging Luffy in the process.
"Now is our chance! Run for it!" Zoro announced to everyone else afraid of the whale realizing what had happened. So immediately thereafter most of the people in the crew started paddling to get away from the whale.
"What's with this thing? Did it not even feel the cannonball just now?" Sanji asked as he was paddling along with Usopp on one side of the Merry.
"Ma … maybe it ... it's just really … really slow." Akame said at the time she paddled along with Zoro on the other side.
"Who cares!? Let's just get out of here!" Usopp cried.
"Do you think that cannonball will bring him down?" Cat asked Mele as she looked at the whale with a stern look.
"Nah. That fish is too big to go down so easily." Mele answered with a stern look of her own gaze directed to the humongous animal. "What it needs is a taste of my spear!"
"HOW ARE YOU TWO SO CALM!?" Nami shouted behind both of the other girls before she was muted by the whale who started roaring hurting everyone's ears. During this time Mele and Cat had jumped onto the Free and kicked everyone there back on the Merry.
"HEY YOU WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!?" Both Ace and Sabo shouted irritated by the girls.
"We're gonna hunt this whale!" Said girls replied cheerfully with gleam on their eyes.
"Luffy…?" When Ace and Sabo heard the name of their little brother escape from Nami they turned to see him standing on the deck seemingly mad staring at the whale, which caused both boys to fringe and have one thought alike. 'This is bad news'.
"HOW DARE YOU DESTROY MY SPECIAL SEAT!?" Luffy shouted as he threw his fist at the whale's eye obviously mad.
"YOU IDIOT!" Everyone else on the going Merry started crying at the thought of what was going to happen now with the whale.
"Will that bring it down?" Cat turned and asked Mele as they were both on the Free waiting for a reaction from the whale.
"No, like I said it needs to taste my spear!"
"No offense, but I don't see how your spear would caught its attention. Not even Luffy's …" Cat stopped midway of what she was going to say since she noticed the whale now staring at the Merry.
"IT SAW US!" Both girls heard the shout from their crewmates on the Merry.
"Maybe we should get out from here." Mele said to Cat kind of worried.
"Maybe we should…" After both girls agreed on running, not really wanting to let slide they were panicking (even though it was obvious), they rushed as quickly as humanly possible to move the ship the other way around from the whale.
"Come at me you bastard!" Luffy was now defying the whale to a match which everyone else couldn't even comprehend but they did knew one thing, they had to stop him and get out of there. Luckily there where some people who took upon themselves the first thing on the list.
"SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY, YOU MORON!" Zoro, Usopp, Ace and Sabo all kicked Luffy in order to shut him up. But at that time the humongous whale opened its mouth starting to swallow the ship and making Luffy to fell off it.
"AHHHH! I ain't gonna die here!" Luffy screamed throwing his hand in order to grab to one of the whale's teeth to keep himself from drowning into the ocean and before the animal could close its mouth again Luffy jumped over it to have some place in which to stand.
"What do I do now? Everyone was swallowed up!" Luffy asked himself as he was panting.
"Luffy!" Both girls on the Free called their youngest captain's name and said man started turning his head in all directions until he found them some distance away from the whale, safe.
"Girls! You alright!? This whale ate everyone else!" Luffy said the last giving a hard stomp on his footing.
"We saw it. What do we do now?" Cat asked her captain but he was unable to respond because the whale started to dive slowly at the time making the three of them worry.
"DAMN IT WHALE! Are you planning to dive underwater!? Wait!" As Luffy said this he was stomping madly at the whale.
"Mele let's go we need to get Luffy!"
"No, if we go near the whale we might be dragged underwater with the ship, Luffy needs to get here." Mele said holding her spear close, shaking, for the first time Cat could see that the other girl was afraid and speechless from what was going on, but who could blame her? They were not expecting this.
"LUFFY! YOU SHOULD GET HERE IT'S THE SAFEST! LATER ON WE CAN LOOK FOR…" Cat had also let slip her emotions, but her shouts could not match the ones from Luffy.
"WAIT! GIVE ME BACK MY FRIENDS! GIVE ME BACK MY BROTHERS! WE WERE ABOUT TO START OUR GREAT ADVENTURE! THEY'RE VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME!"
The other two crewmates didn't knew what to do as well. Everything that Luffy was saying was true, and they were unable to do anything, which was what hurt the most.
Cat realized that she had fallen to her knees and next to her was also on the floor with the head hanging Mele, but she didn't knew when this happened what she did knew when turned to the front was that on the mid time of this Luffy and the whale where gone!
"MELE! Where did Luffy went to?"
"What!? That freaking moron! He must have drown when the whale dived! He's a damn hammer he'll drown to the bottom of the sea!" Mele shouted and as she finished both girls jumped from the ship and onto the ocean to look for their captain.
"We… we… well thi… this sure… sure its sur… surprising…"
"It sure is Akame…" Sabo said disbelieve in her sight as he scanned all around them for an answer.
"What do you guys make of it?" Sanji asked everyone else as he watched from the railing.
"What do I make of this…?" Zoro was troubled by the question, he didn't really knew how to give an answer to it.
"What can we make of it!? What are we supposed to make of this! We were eaten by a freaking whale! So how come we're here and not dead?" Rocky snapped obviously irked by the sight. They found themselves in a new sea with the sky above themselves and a small island right in front of them.
"Well yeah, but what are your explanations for this?" Sanji replied keeping his gaze on the little island.
"Maybe we're dreaming this." Nami said with disbelieving eyes.
"Yeah… this… this has… has go… got to be… a… a dream… "Akame said continuing with Nami's idea.
"Then if it's a dream, we won't need coffins? Or we will?" Morti said stopping himself from making any more coffins since that's what he had been doing.
"But if it's a dream what's with the house on the island?" Ace said completely ignoring Morti.
"Must be an illusion…" Sanji replied to him not giving it much thought to the matter since just then a giant squid popped from the sea.
"Then what about this?" Zoro said unimpressed, not sure of what to expect anymore.
"ITS A GIANT SQUID!" Nami, Usopp and Morti cried at the same time and the rest of the crew prepared to fight, but before anyone could do a thing the squid was killed by three harpoons shot through him from the house in the small island.
"Seems like there's a person here." Sabo said pretty calmed even though he was gripping on his pole ready to fight.
"Let's hope its a person." Ace replied as he smiled and lifted his hat from his sight with one finger from his spot crouched on the railing.
"If...if the … there do is a damn person inside…" Akame said approaching the front to where his captains were while she holded her sword.
"And wants some fight… " Sanji said as he took one puff from his cigarette.
"We're just gonna have to crush them!" Zoro said with his arms crossed staring at the island.
"Yeah mates that's cool and all, but weren't we dead or on a dream?" Rocky asked as he looked around still not sure of the place.
"I don't know, I don't care, I've had enough. I just want to go home" Nami cried while on the floor with streams of tears falling down her eyes.
"By the way... Where did Luffy go?" Usopp asked also on the floor crying as well next to Nami.
"What the...? Just what the hell is all this!?" Luffy wondered how could there be a steel covered hallway or a hatched for that matter on a freaking whale!
Cat and Mele had dived looking for Luffy but there was no sign of him, what they did found was two other people swimming who apparently were going inside the whale so it didn't take more than a second for the girls to decide and follow them
"Maybe we should just open fire to that island!" Usopp said getting up from his hiding spot covered in sweat from his obvious fear.
"Yeah, if there do is someone amicable we can always say sorry, or if they don't make it I'll bury them and pray for their souls." Morti added being onboard with Usopp's plan.
"Get a grip you two! Darn it!" Akame-san roared apparently bothered by the cowards plan.
"Yeah hang on. There's someone coming out." Sanji said staring intently at the porch of the house where there was now a man standing.
"Besides if we do blow them we will never know if we're already death." Rocky said with a smile on his face that didn't last much since Nami hitted him.
"It has already been established we're alive you moron!" The girl in question said after hitting the rock headed.
"So instead I should be making coffins for us?" Morti stated plainly gaining his own hit.
"You guys are all nuts..." Nami just stated plainly.
But all this death talk sparked a discussion, about whether they were alive or had die, among Rocky, Morti, Usopp, Sanji and Akame, and in a degree Nami who just throw herself on the floor not believing how stupid the argument was.
"A ship?" The person on the island said wondering how the ship got there and if they were rioting since he could see a ruckus on deck.
So that was chapter 7... And apparently I was able to finish it... I thought and I guess you did too that this day would never come.
So please reblog and come back another time to see more of this. I swear I'll try to update sooner.
