And a new chapter! Seven chapters translated! I'm proud of myself : p… Ok, ok, I seem to be pretentious… Well! So… Before starting, new part of information about One Piece in France!
An Anime exist in France… On the one hand, we are lucky in comparison with American version… I hear in USA, it is a massacre: a lot of censure, no blood, rap for opening (GYARG! I can't support this type of music!) Orange juice and not rum, no guns… All of it because of 4Kids… Please, don't come in France, dubbed 4 kids One Piece! In France, we have Japanese Opening and ending.
On the other hand, the Anime in France is… well, no censure (We are lucky with that point!), but the dubbing isn't fantastic (a little horrible…) Well, they are only five people to dub, so, it can't be marvellous… But when Luffy seems asleep when he is speaking, there is a problem! And voices change. For example, Baggy's voice is good at the beginning, but in Loguetown, he is whispering… Also, the French Anime stops when Dragon appears in Loguetown… The next season isn't announced. And the Anime was (is?) broadcasted on cable channels.
Now, chapter 7!
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Chapter 7: A united crew
Opale had finished writing her letter, and its writing with Robin didn't disturb her, above all the woman didn't care of this letter. The girl went to the Post Office Pelican, and put her letter in its mail bag. The bird looked at Opale with eyes in form of plate.
"I understand…"
Opale gave it a fish.
"I take that when I came back!"
"If you have some salads too…"
The snail phone in the pelican beak was knocked down.
"Moron snail phone… My poor little pelican! I feel sorry for you to have this type of animal in your beak…"
Opale threw the fish in the pelican beak which seemed happy, and then it flew away.
"Take care of this message", Opale though. "And take it to destination… If not he would be worried and in a bad mood…"
The girl went back where she let her instrument case, and played again, sure to not be interrupted before midnight… Indeed, Zoro came at time to the front of the ship, looking for Opale.
"What are you doing? It's one past twelve, and twenty seconds!"
"Sorry, I haven't got a watch with me!" Opale said putting her flute in the case. "I'm coming! Just a minute!"
Opale went to girls' room, where Robin was reading. She raised her head and smiled to Opale who was taking her weapon.
"You will not make Nami angry as last night, will you?"
"Don't worry about it", Opale answered. "Zorro will just teach me, and not fight."
"I know someone who might be happy…"
A huge smile appeared on Opale's face.
"Are you talking about my ex?"
"That's right!" Robin said in a smile. "What a funny nickname, he would also be happy!"
"No doubt about it", Opale replied smiling, climbing the stairs. "But I don't care, he isn't on this ship, and he couldn't reproach me something! Good night, Robin!"
"Good night, Opale!"
The young girl went back on the deck, a huge smile on her face. Then Robin sighed, smiling too.
"Young people…"
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"Hit higher, Opale!"
The girl struck higher with her sword, cutting air, imitating Zoro.
"Yeah that's better… Parry…"
As during choreography, Zoro and Opale were synchronizing their movements with elegance.
"Half turn… Hit!"
Except Zoro had his three swords, and Opale just one. And Nami was looking at this higher with a mocking look.
"And a fewer girl for Sanji! I must give everything I have to see him now! A girl in Zoro's arms!"
Well! A blond point just went out, followed by white smoke of cigarette… and he went at the back of the ship. Nami stop herself laughing… Sanji just saw the two fighters, who didn't see him. The poor blond haired boy let go of his cigarette, and put out it with his feet, and he went back in a mechanical walk inside. Nami burst out laughing. The red haired girl wiped a tear, and looked at the horizon.
"LAND!"
Zoro and Opale stopped their "dance", and raised their look at the look-out post.
"Do we drive the boat?" Opale asked.
"Tss, you think you could help me with your little thin arms… OUCH!"
Opale just hit Zoro's head.
"I have little thin arms like that, Roronoa?"
"No…"
Opale took a towel which was on the floor, raised her sunglasses on her head and mopped her brow. Then she put her precious glasses back in front of her eyes and followed Zoro who was about to call her.
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"A desert…"
"Island…"
Usopp filled up Sanji's sentence. Telescope aimed to the island, they seemed disappointed.
"Nami, can't we come near?" Luffy asked.
"No", Nami said looking at her maritime maps. "Some meters ahead, undersea reef is too high to pass without damage the ship."
Sighs. Above all, a thunderstorm of heat could be smelt, according to Nami. Indeed, from a dark cloud, a lightning appeared, far away. A wonderful morning began.
"Great, the summer island", Usopp said after exchange his bath shorts for an oilskin. "Rotten weather…"
Then the first drops fell.
"Wonderful", Opale said. "I like it."
"Eh, Opale!" Luffy exclaimed. "If there is a break, can you take me on your boat?"
"All right!" Opale replied. "And we will try to see if there is something on this island, as fruits!"
"And meat!" Luffy yelled.
"I think there isn't a butcher here", Chopper said.
"Exactly", Usopp said opening an umbrella under which he took shelter with Chopper who snorted. "STOP IT! YOU ARE SPLASHING ME!"
"Sorry", the little reindeer murmured.
"Go inside to take shelter", Robin suggested on the doorstep, sheltered. "We don't need to have a cold."
Time spent, during while they discussed at table. Nami realized that Robin and Opale seemed appreciate each other now, and they were talking together, also sometimes of Opale's ex.
"I think I will not sit up tonight", Nami though. "I'm tired… Very tired…"
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"LET'S GO, OPALE!"
The girl jumped to her boat. Luffy was wearing a life-jacket made in Usopp in case the boat would be turn over because of the wind. Clouds, but a little break. And a little wind.
"Be careful", Robin said. "It could be dangerous."
"No problems! I protect Luffy!"
"And I protect Opale!"
"Useless to worry, so!" Zoro exclaimed in a smile. "But be careful with the reef!"
"Exactly!" Nami said.
"No problems!" Opale replied. "I will be careful!"
Then she began to pedal…
"YAOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh…"
Luffy's shout became soon an echo. He put his hand on his head to hold his straw hat, and Opale was pedaling, accelerating to make her captain happy.
"GREAAAAAAAAAAT!" Luffy yelled.
"Glad to make you happy, I love risky activities!" Opale said laughing. "It's agreeable to take risks!"
"More I know you, more I think you are feminine double of Zoro! You are not his sister, I hope!"
Opale burst out laughing, pedaling.
"This poor Zoro wouldn't support me!"
"Hehe, if you say so!"
They came near to the island quickly, and they didn't delay to disembark. A little forest was ahead them.
"Do we enter?" Opale asked.
"Let's go!" Luffy exclaimed.
They entered in the forest, Opale, her spear in her back, Luffy, listening around. Sometimes thunder echoed…
"This place doesn't seem safe" Luffy murmured.
"I feel as you", Opale added. "I have the bad feeling to be observ…"
"MOVE OPALE!"
The girl started and moved away, but a bullet touched her leg.
"Ouch!"
"OPALE!"
"It's just a scratch Luffy! Run away!"
Then the two teenagers ran, accompanied by bullets.
"COME BACK! YOU FOUL KIDS!"
"This voice!" Luffy exclaimed.
"Yes, this dear Slyce Topor! LUFFY!"
Bullet touched Luffy, but all of its bounced on the elastic skin of the boy.
"Don't worry Opale, bullets can't hurt me!"
"Well! If I knew it, I would kill him before!"
Luffy stared at Opale who grimaced, running.
"Are you sure your leg is okay?"
"I learned to forget my pain a long time ago, Luffy! Don't worry for me… We go back to the Going Merry, then…"
Opale and Luffy stopped when they arrived on the beach. Five ships, tottering because of the weight of numerous men, were encircling Going Merry.
"All of it is because of me!" Opale exclaimed. "I regret coming in your crew, Luffy!"
"Shut up, Opale."
"What?"
"Shut up! I knew the risk I could have when I accept you! We had already talked of it with the others, we were ready! COME! WE MOVE! And we will help them!"
"Luffy…"
Luffy pulled Opale's arm, and ran to the boat.
"Come! I trust you to go here the quickest as you can!"
"All right" Opale replied with a resolute look.
The girl correctly put on her sunglasses, and then pedaled rapidly.
"HANG LUFFY!"
The boat went at full speed, and Luffy had to hang on to not fly. A lightning appeared in the sky, and waves were higher and higher.
"It becomes dangerous, Opale!" Luffy shouted. "We could hit a reef anytime!"
"I know!" Opale replied while a downpour fell. "Do you see the handle at your left?"
"Yes, why?"
"When I will tell you to pull, pull it!"
The boat was raised by a high wave.
"Luffy, where does my hair fly?"
"Uh?"
"Reply!"
"A little at your right… Why?"
"PULL!"
Luffy pull the handle, and was about to receive a metallic bar in his face, which raised vertically, and an other bar, perpendicular to it, go down, and let appear a sail. Opale drove her boat so as to the sail was swelled up by the wind.
"SO COOL!" Luffy yelled.
They were flying above the raging sea, Opale holding the helm, smiling as Luffy.
"We will do it, Luffy!"
The boat glided during about one minute, before splashed down near the ships.
"I will send them to the fishes!" Opale exclaimed. "You, go and help the others!"
"Are you mad!" Luffy exclaimed.
"No, unaware, Captain!"
The boat passed near a big enemies' ship, and before Luffy could say anything, Opale jumped in the air, in an incredible speed.
"OPALE! COME BACK!"
Enemy pirates raised their eyes to Opale who was jumping.
"Here is the centre of gravity, Opale murmured taking her spear. GO TO HELL! STEEL DAISY!"
Before pirates could react, Opale landed on the deck, and put her spear in a definite place. A smile appeared on her face… Fissures appeared from the place where the weapon was put, and propagated in a dazzling speed, all straight. Opale jumped again in the air, and landed on her boat near Luffy.
"It will move!"
The enemy ship was ripped open in many parts, as a simple cake cutting easily by a knife. Luffy clung to the border of the boat, shaking.
"YOU ARE CRAZY!"
"Said by you, Luffy, I don't know how to understand it! Four ships still!"
Opale was ready to jump, but Luffy caught her arm.
"Let me go, Luffy!"
"I will not let you run the risk of being killed without react! YOU ARE IN OUR CREW, DAMN! EVERYONE HAVE TO FIGHT! DON'T RISK YOUR LIFE ALONE! We help each other, damn! WE ARE FRIENDS!"
Behind her sunglasses, a tear slipped.
"Luffy…"
"The others are already fighting, look…"
Indeed, enemies fell into the sea, some of them sharp, knocked down, with hoof traces on their body, or spitted fire strangling them…
"In difficult time, we fight together. We don't care about who is responsible, you hear me? We are united still!"
"Luffy…"
Opale wiped her tears.
"Thank you…"
The straw hat boy smiled.
"Right, come and fight with us Opale, but don't stay alone!"
Opale shook her head in a smile. She raised her eyes at the Going Merry, where Luffy moved thanks to his elastic arms. He was looking at Opale, beckoning to her to climb. But the girl's look suddenly changed, in a horrified and worried look.
"OPALE! OPALE!"
Luffy yelled when he saw Opale jumping… in the trajectory of bullets, fired in Robin's direction, who was looking elsewhere.
"ROBIN!" the young girl yelled.
Robin turned to Opale, and saw the bullets rushed at her… But they didn't touch their target.
"OPALE!" the woman yelled.
Nami, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji and Chopper heard Luffy's and Robin's shouts, trying to understand. Knocking down the rest of enemies, they turned. Opale was falling to the sea, missing her boat where she must have to land. Robin held her arm, making others appear, leveled them at Opale. But the girl was already in the sea. When a hand of one of her arms touched the seawater, they all disappeared. Too late.
"OPALE!" Robin yelled, as Luffy and the others members.
But Zoro had already plunged, not taking the time to lament or yell uselessly. In the water, he followed bubbles, and the thin trickle of blood which went up to the surface… Sunglasses… Instinctively, he caught them, but Opale wasn't wearing them… He saw the girl below, unconscious, who was going deeply. He managed to catch her…
"IT CANNOT BE!" Luffy yelled, crying.
Robin put a hand on her face, looking where Zoro had plunged… The girl had protected her, even if their hate was recent.
"POUAH!"
Zoro appeared at the surface, wet, holding Opale in his arms. The girl started, and spitted water.
"Opale!" Luffy exclaimed.
"Send me a ladder!" Zoro shouted. "You are dopey, my word!"
Chopper quickly threw a rope ladder. Zoro clung to it with one hand, holding Opale with the other. He climbed with an incredible speed, and hurried up to lie down her on the deck. Her eyes closing, her face tensed, the girl spitted water again.
"She is alive", Luffy sighed.
Chopper came near the girl quickly.
"She is just unconscious, the reindeer murmured, relieved. Bullets which hurt her don't touch vital point, in first impression, but I have to extract the lead shot and treat it"
Chopper took his human form, and took carefully Opale in his arms. The girl, her eyes always closed, murmured a sentence, sign she was alive:
"Thanks… Zoro…"
The swordsman, when he heard those words, smiled, and sighed.