31 Dec X100

We had been sailing for months on end with no islands in sight. The sea was also so cold that we had to wear big fur coats to not get frozen by the weather. Polly was inside the cabin as he would die in this cold. But we continued anyways. The Vivre Card that Cera had given me lead this way so that's where I was heading. It suddenly began clearing up and the fur coats began getting hot and sweaty so we quickly threw them off.

Suddenly there was a flower right in front of me. It looked like it was floating mid air and got closer and closer to my eyes. Then I realised that it was actually a gigantic flower on top off a grass island. The flower was one I had never seen before. The island beneath was covered in its big shadow and it was almost completely barren of with only grass growing there. No animal life could be spotted there.

There were roots growing all over the island reaching into the sea. Somehow the flower must've evolved to be able to gain nutrients from salt water instead of fresh water. The stem of the flower seemed to form like a spring growing upwards. All the way to the top grew small leaves. At the bottom of the stem there seemed to be a giant caterpillar. As we got off the ship and began climbing the massive vines we could see that the on top off the giant caterpillar was what looked to be a generic Carriage driver.

He had an unkempt beard and a rough looking coat. He rubbed his eyes and asked "Need a ride up to the top?" I looked down at the Vivre card which was jumping upwards towards the top. Cera must be on this island I thought to myself. I looked up at him and answered "Yes we'd love to. How much for the trip? Also what's the name of this island?" He chuckled and said "This here island is known as Kagool Island. One shouldn't step on here if one is a pirate. (Or a woman). But nevermind that hop in hop in."

Hop in? I thought to myself. What does he mean. Even before I finished my thought the giant caterpillar opened its mouth and the circles on the sides of it turned pale and see through like glass. "This here caterpillar has eaten the Basu Basu no mi. He is a bus caterpillar. Quite crafty. He is one nice caterpillar too" He said as he patted it on the side.

As we head inside we notice that the inside looks like any other vehicle. Except everything is made out of caterpillar hair. I never in my life expected it to be so comfy. Shay and I sat in opposite seats face to face. The carriage was so soft that I actually fell asleep. When I awoke we were just getting past two petal to reach the top.

What came next almost blew me out of my seat. It was a village… No a whole city made out of pure paper. The colour so vibrant it wasn't just white. The paper made people also had many kinds of shapes and sizes. There were children running around playing fetch with a dog. It was unbelieveable. I quickly woke up Shay and we began walking through the town.

I made sure as to keep the Vivre Card hidden as to not cause a ruckus, which it surely would. We thanked the carriage driver and he just fell asleep and waited for our return. It was so weird, like a whole other world. Never in my life had imagined such wonder. Though I must say the food and weapons weren't really the best for outsiders.

We kept heading straight through the city towards a big castle. When we approached the door the paper guards quickly opened up for us. Inside seemed to be something that was out of place. It was probably how empty and dark it looked. Slowly our eyes got used to it and we took a look around. There seemed to be cages hanging from the ceiling.

The Vivre Card pointed us further and further along. When we had almost reached the end it once again began jumping. We looked up and there seemed to be a spire from the castle going upwards. There was another cage hanging there. And out of that cage hang dirty boots.

I took out a part of my staff and reformed it into a pistol and placed a thunder dial inside. I then took aim and fired at the cage. A blinding light appeared and the noise of electricity filled the air though I had only tapped the trigger so the jolt shouldn't have done any harm.

The boots got back into the cage and a familiar voice roared out "Hey what the hell are you doing?! First paper cuts and now electrocution?! For the last time I will not marry you just to avoid getting sent to the marines. I made a vow and I'm sticking to it!" Both of us began laughing at Cera's outburst.

Cera noticed the laughter and looked down from within the cage. "Cooper? Is that you?! Oh it feels like an eternity since we last met. Did you already find your brother?" She looked over at Shay "You definitely don't have the same taste. Anyways, why'd you have to go and shock me like that?!" The cage began swinging back and forth and the center of the room began changing. It seemed like it was molding people.

One took colour and had more defining features. The others looked like very big breasted paper woman in skimpy clothing. "You must be the new guys right? Good to see you've already met my future wife. Well she needs a little um what would you say… manners. Well while you take care of that I'll just be on my way with my girls here."

As he began moving towards the door on the right side of the room I dashed forward and punched him square in the face. He must've been new to his devil fruit because he should've just turned into a bit of bent paper, but instead I could feel his nose breaking due to the punch. "Hey. Wowowowooooooow, What are you doing man? You shouldn't go around hitting people like that!"

He then put his nose back in place and made the paper women next to him turn into a storm of paper planes. I took out the thunder dial in my chamber and changed it out with a blaze dial and fired away at the airplanes. The surrounding castle then also began bursting into flames "What the hell are you doing?! MY CASTLE! MY HAREM!" He then transformed his arms into sharp needles of paper and began stabbing at me.

I tried my best to dodge him but it seemed like the more I dodged the faster he got. Shay who had been trying to cut open the paper cage that Cera was in noticed how much trouble I was in and created spiky bones in front of the man. However he just ran right past him and stabbed me in the gut. It went all the way through to the other side piercing through my body.

"Now listen here boy. You don't what you're messing with. I am Pasak Ara a Shichibukai. You know what that means? I work for the world government and they won't just patiently sit by while you destroy my kingdom. They will come here and I'll make sure you get a nice spot in Impel down. And you up there! You are coming too!"

The castle then transformed into tons of needles and they were immediately launched at Shay. He kept his cool and just surrounded himself in a sphere of bones blocking the attack. As Pasak was distracted with Shay I put back my pistol and took the whole thing out and reformed it into a big axe. "You know what Kairoseki is right? Well this here ore I got from a friend of mine and it is, just like kairoseki, able to cut Logia users."

I then swiftly swung the big double sided axe at Pasak quickly cutting him down from the shoulder and across his stomach. The part of the castle that was behind him got ripped through as if a giant knife had just cut through it. The air slash of the axe kept going destroying almost the whole town and disappeared before it hit the carriage driver and his caterpillar.

Pasak wasn't dead but definitely knocked out cold. We quickly ran out of the castle and headed through the ruined city. Every single one of the townspeople tried to knock us down, by throwing things like paper cabbages or watermelon. When we got close enough to the caterpillar we all called out "We need to get down to the surface quickly!"

He yawned and rubbed his eyes "Already? Well the customer decides. Hop in we're leaving immediately" The giant caterpillar quickly scared off the paper inhabitants making them return to the town. We then began descending and this time I was able to see the beautiful view, though it did give me a draining feeling as I had never been good with heights especially when the caterpillar coiled around the stem so that it was turned upside down.

Luckily for us the hairs inside tied around us like seatbelts so we were in no danger of falling. When we stepped on to the ship and walked through the door to the kitchen Polly instantaneously flew over to me and landed on my shoulder which shocked Cera so much that she punched at the bird which flew off my shoulder again which lead to Cera hitting me instead. "You really need to work on your strength Cera. I almost didn't even feel that."