Huge Revolution
XIII: Oh F!sh
"Yohohoho!" Brook laughed as Franky got out a guitar as well. "In that case, this calls for music!"
As the chords were struck, the sun shone warmly down on the happy crew, the shadows of the island's past gone at long last.
The sun dawned over Fishman Island once again, light sparkling over the peaceful undersea kingdom in some tranquillity brought on for over a week since the battle of Gyoncorde Plaza.
"Madame Shyarly! Luffy-chin and his crew are going to leave the island!"
"Oh, really? Go see them off."
"OKAY!"
"Madame, can we go too~?" the request rang through the small room of the Mermaid Café on Coral Hill.
"Hmm...? Fine then, we'll have to close up shop temporarily." the Madame gave a small smile. "The customers that idiot Hody was keeping away will be back soon. Make sure to keep the Café alive with energy, girls."
"Leave it to us, Madame!" A chorus answered.
Keimi, unnoticed by the hubbub of giggling mermaids, noticed something. "Ah...!"
"About the crystal?" Madame mused, looking at the broken shards of the crystal ball. "That's it for me... truly, I won't be telling another fortune. 'Strawhat Luffy will destroy the island'... I didn't want to see such a terrible fortune to begin with. Nothing would make me happier than if I was wrong..."
"But, Madame!" Keimi protested. "Luffy-chin and his crew would never do such a-"
"Keimi..." the Madame interrupted. "Forgive me for suspecting your friends... I know I can believe in him, right? That boy with the straw hat..."
Keimi visibly brightened. "...Yes!"
"That Signer..." Madame Shyarly mused as the mermaid left. "If, truly... give us hope, if nothing else."
"Waah! You're really leaving, Luffy-sama?" the Princess Shirahoshi was crying again. "But we just became friends! Please, just one more day... no, one more week! One more year!"
"You've been doing nothing but crying, Weak-hoshi!" Luffy scolded.
"I-I'm sorry, I'll stop being a crybaby!" Shirahoshi sniffed. "Hic, hic... Yusei-sama! Please don't leave!"
"Ahh, the Mermaid Princess of Fishman Island..." Sanji cried. "How long I've dreamt of seeing you with my own eyes... but to think that I'll see you give us a tearful goodbye like this! I wish we could stay for another year!"
"I feel your pain, yohohoho!" Brook laughed. "'Life on Fishman Island is a Dream' will be my new single! 'One, two, three, four... morning! Wake up, good Mer- ning!'"
"That's a good idea, I agree," Zoro drawled. "You should definitely stay, nosebleed boy."
"What did you say, marimo!" Flames erupted "Be careful during the next meal we have! I'll teach you not to mess with this cook!"
"Bring it on! I'll digest poison, razor blades, whatever you've got!"
"How lively," Yusei monitored from the sidelines, before looking at the depressed Usopp and Chopper. "What a contrast..."
"There's got to be a limit to depression...-.-" Ace muttered.
"We're finished..." Usopp wept. "One of the Yonkou is after us now! We're going to the New World to die...!"
"I wonder, if maybe we gave her all the treasures we have from here on out, she'll forgive us..." Chopper joined him.
"... not likely," Aki muttered.
"Huh? What is this?" Nami exclaimed loudly as she brandished a sort of watch outfitted with three Log Poses.
"Oh, it's a New World Log Pose," Ace drawled, fishing about in his pockets. "Nope... mine must've been stolen."
"Wow! It looks pretty cool!" Luffy exclaimed.
"On the Grand Line, Log Poses record the magnetic waves coming from the next island you're going to, allowing you to use that to navigate your ship," the catfish minister was explaining. "But, on the second half, there exists islands with differing ocean currents, weather, and magnetic waves which have been your only trustworthy source so far! There are even some islands which los their magnetic waves while you navigate towards them."
"What?" Nami exclaimed. "Then, how do we get to those islands?"
"If you were using one compass, you'll be shipwrecked right away," the minister pointed. "But, if you were using three... one of those compasses is shaking like your Log Pose, but the other two are completely still! Each of those compasses record the magnetic waves of a differing island. In other words, you must use your intuition to choose your path, and depending on how you choose, it could mean the difference between life and death! Master navigators can find safer routes just from seeing subtle changes in the movements of the compass needles. Basically, the stranger the movement of the needle is, the more dangerous the island you're heading to is!"
"What? No! I don't like this!" Nami screamed. "I'd rather not know at all!"
"Why? If you don't search for safer routes, you can die you know..."
"It's going to tell me how dangerous each route is? No! Break this, I don't want it!" Nami yelped.
"Let me see!" the voice of doom caused both her and Usopp to start. "Look, the one in the middle is really shaking!"
"NOOOOOO!"
"Let's go to that island, it looks fun!"
"HE OVERHEARD US!"
"Knowing Luffy, we'll be taking the most dangerous routes from here on out..." Ace drawled, grinning. "Good."
"Luffy, you just be quiet!" Nami screamed. "I'm the one choosing which route we take from here on out!"
"Says who? I'm the captain!"
"Please, listen to the navigator!" Chopper and Usopp cried.
"Nami San's so cute when she's scared~"
"Coupled with the 'B-Side Requiem' for us!" Brook cackled.
"Alright, guys!" Franky appeared.
"Why a beetle!" Ace yelped.
"We're all ready to set out!" Franky yelled. "I learned how to float up too! Ready to go?"
"Let's go!" Luffy yelled loudly as the crew began to bid farewell.
"Nyuu, I'm going to help them repair the factory," an injured Hachi waved. "You don't mind if I don't guide you, right?"
"No worries!" Luffy grinned. "The adventure here was fun, you know!"
"Yep, that's right!" Usopp yelled. "We don't need people to guide us! Because when men head on a journey, they're always heading to hell!"
"Yeah! It's war out there!" Chopper joined him. "And we like it that way!"
"So desperate..." Robin commented.
"Come back soon, everyone~!" the mermaids cooed.
"We'll be back, you bet! You're the All Blue of my heart, ladies~!"
"What a cheap dream."
"What d'you say?"
"You're so funny, Sanji Chan!"
"Thank you for saving my life," Yusei formally bowed as the Crown Prince of the island approached them.
Prince Fukaboshi disagreed as he clasped hands with both Luffy and Yusei. "Both of you, you have nothing but my gratitude! Thank you! I pray for your safety on your next journey!"
"Okay!" Luffy grinned.
"Next time you meet us, we'll be leading the strongest army on the ocean floor!" Manboshi cheered.
"Yeah! We're going to rewrite the legend of the Great Neptune Knights, mi-fa-so-la-ti-do~" Ryuboshi added.
"Heehee!" Luffy chuckled. "I can't wait to see it! Jimbe!"
Silently, the old Fishman gave a wide grin that Luffy returned as Yusei waved back.
"Okay, set sail! We're setting off!" Luffy bellowed. "See ya, Fishman Island!"
The chorus from the islanders echoed. "We'll have more sweets and meat for you to eat!" "You made us like humans!" "Oh, and raccoons and robots too!"
"What about skeletons?" Brook yelled.
"We like them too!"
"Why thank you!"
"Take care! Luffy-chin!"
"Come back and eat some takoyaki!"
"Shishishi!" Luffy laughed.
A sopping wet and large hand draped over the deck, and Shirahoshi's face poked out. "Luffy-sama! Yusei-sama! If we... if we ever meet again!"
"Uwaah! Weak-hoshi!"
"Shirahoshi Chan~!" Sanji waltzed about.
"Haa, haa..." the princess took a while to catch her breath. "When that time comes... I won't be a crybaby anymore! So... please take me on another fun walk!"
"A walk?" Luffy echoed. "You wanna visit your mother's grave again?"
"Next time I want to go further... to the surface, to see a real forest!" Shirahoshi answered cheerfully.
"Oh... that's right, you've never been out to sea!" Luffy realised. "Okay, sure! Next time I'll take you there!"
"It's a promise!" Shirahoshi held out a pinky.
"Yep, sure thing!" Luffy's pinky wrapped around her own. "It's a promise!"
"Luffy, don't we all have responsibility for that?" Nami exclaimed.
"Luffy San, you have to keep your promises no matter what, you know?" Brook laughed as the crew headed over.
"Okay, then, Shirahoshi, I promise!"
"Me too!"
"Me too!"
"Remember, Shirahoshi Hime," Yusei gave a small smile. "The shooting star can grant wishes... but you have to take the first step."
"Shishishi, alright, now no more crying!" Luffy laughed.
"...yes!" the princess smiled, continuing to wave as the ship passed, out to the next adventure...
"Thank you for everything!" Tears of joy landed in the waters as the Mermaid Princess cried farewell. "Luffy-sama! Yusei-sama! Everyone! Thank you, shooting star Sama! I'll never forget it! Thank you!"
"Too bad he's a wanted man..." Neptune muttered.
"What wrong, Father?" Prince Fukaboshi asked.
"That Fudo Yusei... he was the ideal consort for Shirahoshi."
"What?" all three princes freaked, along with most of the kingdom.
"It'll be difficult to find another like him..." Jimbe commented wryly. "What a high standard the king has set."
"Ahhhh, that was the best... Mermaid Heaven..."
"Alright, everyone, it's time to get serious again!" Nami called. "We're going to be passing through the dark black seas again!"
"What's that, Franky?" Usopp pointed to a rope of wood blocks at the entrance.
"Oh, those Kuigosu wood chips are extremely buoyant, so I'm using them to float our ship up," the shipwright commented. "We can change our speed by the amount we dangle out."
"...? What's wrong, Luffy?" Zoro called to the captain, who was still standing on the lion head of the Sunny as the Thousand Sunny floated out of the Ryugu Kingdom.
"Once we reach the ocean... we'll be in the same ocean as Shanks!" Luffy grinned. "I really want to see him... once we get to the surface, we'll be in the strongest sea in the world!"
"We're finally here," Zoro grinned. "I'll cut everything down!"
"Please wait for me, Laboon!" Brook laughed. "I'm already halfway there!"
"I'll take us anywhere we want to go!" Nami laughed.
"That's right, Sunny can handle anything!" Franky smirked.
"You needn't worry about food as long as I'm here!" Sanji promised.
"Fight as much as you want, everyone!" Chopper yelled.
"As a doctor, we're here," Aki promised.
"And remember you've got a warrior of the sea riding with you!" Usopp joined him.
"I don;t really know what I can do... but, I'll never leave," Yusei gave a small smile.
"Fufu..." Robin giggled.
"This crew, and my little brother... they'll drive me insane sooner or later," Ace drawled, his hat shielding his eyes. "But, I'm still sticking around anyway."
"Let's go, you guys!" Luffy yelled. "To the New World!"
"OOOOOOOHHHHHHH!"
"Usopp, Yusei!" Luffy complained later as the Sunny slowly ascended through from the bottom of the sea. "Hurry up, I'm hungry!"
"A weak and shoddy rope won't stand a chance against a giant fish!" Usopp chided as all three of the 'Engineer Musketeers' i.e. those with any idea of mechanics were stringing together a large fishing rope.
"All of you look like you're having fun," Robin smiled.
"Shishishi!" Luffy chuckled. "With all the excitement on Fishman Island the idea didn't even occur to me, but if we catch a deep sea fish then Sanji can make some awesome grub out of it, right?"
"I hope we get one that tastes like cola!" Franky grinned.
"That's a great idea," Zoro commented. "The day we break into the New World, we should have a party to remember it by... maybe we could fry that one up with a bit of salt..."
"I'll bet that one looks good with some mayonnaise on top!" Luffy pointed.
"This one would be tasty dipped in sauce and grilled." Usopp pointed.
"That one looks like steamboat..." Ace drooled.
"It doesn't matter!" Luffy declared. "Whatever Sanji does, it'll be delicious! Gomu Gomu no... Pistol!"
"I knew it!" Usopp yelped. "You wanted to eat that one with mayonnaise, didn't you? Isn't it a little big?"
"Hurry, hurry, catch it!" Luffy danced around.
"I got it, I got it..." Usopp's eyes then popped out as another huge fish caught their fish. "Waah! It ate it!"
An even bigger fish then ate that one.
"Gyah! Holy crap, another crap!" Usopp yelled. "They're going in one after the next like those nesting dolls!"
"I think you mean Matryoshka dolls, Usopp San," Yusei corrected.
"It's too much, the ship's gonna capsize!" Franky yelped.
"Ittoryu... Sanhyaku-rokujuu Pound Hou!"
Sanji considered the giant fish. "I see! This is great! I can't wait to try my hand at deep sea fish cuisine!"
"Why are you all burnt...?" Usopp muttered.
"It gets better!" Luffy grinned. "There's two more inside! More fish o go around!"
"By the way... is this ship still moving forward?" Usopp muttered. "I'm no expert, but I get the feeling that we're sinking..."
"Me too, Usopp San," Yusei noted.
"It's just your imagination!" Luffy chuckled. "Oh, what's that, a snake?"
"A giant sea snake?" Franky commented at the sight.
"Alright, get closer to it!" Luffy declared. "We're gonna eat that too!"
"The ship can't pull anymore!" Usopp yelped.
"Hold on..." Robin squinted. "That can't possibly be..."
"Huh?" Luffy looked to her.
"Whitestrom!" Robin declared.
"It looks like a giant dragon and is known to appear on the sea floor without warning..." Ace commented as he looked at it too. "A giant white whirlpool."
"A whirlpool underwater?" Luffy leaned out for a better look.
"The 'Whitestrom'?" Nami barged out of the bath. "We've got to do something!"
"Ships that have been caught in its pull are usually found days later unbelievably far away..." Robin added. "I might emphasise only the ships are found."
"You're saying that every last person on the ship dies, right?" Usopp screamed. "Hey! We've gotta escape!"
"To waters unbelievably far away?" Luffy echoed. "So... that the warp zone of my dreams?"
"No, you idiot!" Usopp slapped him upside the head.
"Everyone!" Nami reached the deck on time. "Hurry, we've got to get away from that eddy!"
"Come on,you heard the navigator!" Usopp echoed. "We're definitely running for it, you hear me?"
"Kyaaa!" Nami had spotted their catch. "What's with that fish?"
"Ah, we caught it," Luffy smiled as he gave a V.
"What the hell are you thinking?" Nami raged. "If the ship tries to pull something that big,there's no way it can move!"
"Hey, the fish is getting caught in the whirlpool!" Usopp yelled.
"Crap, get it back!" Luffy yelled.
"No, cut it loose!" Nami yelled.
"Ehh?" Most of the men looked in despair.
"The fish or your lives, which is more important?" Nami yelled. "I took my eyes off for ten minutes with Aki and look at the trouble you got us into! And, Yusei! Why didn't you..." she quietened at the sight of a sleeping Yusei tangled in the ropes.
"Oh, yeah, Yusei hadn't slept for over three days to fix the ship," Chopper commented.
"Nami sighed. "Franky, Coup de Burst!"
"Nope, it's Super way too late!" Franky posed, albeit quietly.
"Ah..." Nami trailed off as the ship was pulled into the storm.
"See?"
"Uwaah! We're in for it now!" Luffy grinned.
"Hold onto the ship, hang on for your lives!" Nami called. "And someone hold down Yusei!"
Both D brothers held onto the rapidly awaking handyman as the Sunny turned and twisted through the Whitestrom, before...
"It stopped?" Nami realised.
"We've hit something..." Luffy took a look, his eyes bugging out. "Uwaaaahhh!"
Brook began to tear up at the sight of so many Island Whales. "Laboon! You have gotten so big-!"
"Don't be an idiot!"Usopp yelled. "Laboon is in the first half of the Grand Line! His huge body can't even make it through the Red Line's hole!"
"This is incredible!" Robin commented. "We've run into an entire school of the miraculous Island Whales!"
"Ah..." Yusei blinked his eyes open. "Sorry, I fell asleep... whales?"
"They've got scars on their heads just like Laboon!" Zoro squinted.
"Yeah, that scar looks exactly the same!" Luffy yelped. "Man, that really surprised me! So they're not Laboon?"
"Huge..." Ace commented.
"Binkusu no sake wo, todoke ni yuku yo! Laboon! Stop! Can you here me? It's me, Brook!"
"Pull yourself together!" Usopp smacked him. "They're just other whales, understand?"
"Laboon!"
"This is no time to relax and go whale watching!" Sanji yelped. "Even if we've escaped the whirlpool, we're still in plenty of danger here! First of all, did anyone get washed away in the current just now? Nami San!"
"Here."
"Robin Chan!"
"I'm here."
"Aki-sensei!"
"Here."
"Okay, next we've got to get away from here!" Sanji declared. "If any of those whales crash into us, the ship will be smashed!"
"Sanji, the other nine of us are still alive!" Usopp yelled.
"Yeah, count us too!" Chopper screeched.
"Nami San, orders?"
"We're fine where we are."
"You here that? We're fine where we are, idiots!" Sanji gave a thumbs up. "Now, let's go whale-watching!"
"What the hell is with you?" Usopp yelled.
"This giant school of whales moving have already caused another current!" Nami argued. "If we were to go against that current, we'd be in even more danger! For now, we need to open the sails and follow the whales in the same direction!"
"OKAY!"
One of the whales bellowed, reminding the skeleton musician of something. "That's right... this is where Laboon was born... Are you his relatives, perhaps!"
"Look out, Brook!" Robin warned.
"Have you been looking for a baby whale that got lost from his school fifty years ago! Don't worry, he's in the ocean on the other side! He's doing really well! And he's gotten so big too! So please try not to worry!" Brook was obviously lost...
"We've caught the current!" Luffy called as Brook took out his violin.
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
Binkusu no sake wo, todoke ni yuku yo
Umikaze kimakase namimakase
Shio no mukou de, yuuhi mo sawagu
Sora nya wa wo kaku, tori no uta
Sayonara minato, Tsumugi no sato yo
DON to icchou utao, funade no uta
Kinpa-ginpa mo shibuki ni kaete
Oretacha yuku zo, umi no kagiri
Binkusu no sake wo, todoke ni yuku yo
Warera kaizoku, umi watteku
Nami wo makura ni, negura wa fune yo
Ho ni hata ni ketateru wa dokuro
Arashi ga kita zo, senri no sora ni
Nami ga odoru yo, DORAMU narase
Okubyoukaze ni fukarerya saigo
Asu no asahi ga nai ja nashi!
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
"Hey, you're enjoying this too!" Luffy laughed as the whales bellowed and boomed along.
"Let's ride along with them just like this!" Nami laughed. "It'll be just like riding the rising current."
Binkusu no sake wo, todoke ni yuku yo
Kyou ka asu ka to yoi no yume
Te wo furu kage ni, mou aenai yo
Nani wo kuyokuyo, asu mo tsukuyo
Binkusu no sake wo, todoke ni yuku yo
DON to icchou utao, unaba no uta
Douse dare demo itsuka wa hone yo
Hatenashi, atenashi, waraibanashi!
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hohoho...
"We're about to pass to the surface!' Luffy bellowed as he saw light, light that flooded onto the Sunny and burst through with the happy bellows of whale-song into the second half of the Grand Line, into the New World at long last. "WE'RE OUT!"
"The weather is terrible!" Was Usopp's first cry.
"Yohohoho! The sky is pouring!" Brook laughed.
"The wind is blowing strong!" Robin commented.
"The sea is crashing!" Franky commented.
"The compass needle is all over the place!" Despite this, Nami was smiling.
"The sea looks red!" Chopper yelped.
"A surging sea of flames!" Sanji smirked.
"It looks like the entrance to hell," Zoro grinned.
"A long journey awaits," Aki gave a nod.
"We'll have a storm to pass through," Yusei added.
"This terrible ocean... and I'm here to see it again," Ace laughed.
Luffy echoed all their thoughts. "Perfect!"
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