The Lost Sea Files

Chapter 21: The Lost Sea Part 1

Nico Robin's Journal Entry

As Robin comes to terms with a new discovery, new battles cause the Straw Hat pirates to join together, reminding them what true friendship and love really means for the crew.

Professor Clover once told me, "Look around. Everything is interconnected! From the smallest of creatures to the big. We are all one. Some will leave the web before others and this can change times and energies."

I asked him, how so?

"Because," he said stroking his white beard. By this time it was touching his belly. It was just so long. "The storms we witness. The strange phenomenon is brought on by us. The sudden wars and famine. The sliding rocks of the islands, leaving behind bones of children, adults and animals."

But he said another thing that got me thinking.

He said in the midst of great evil, there will be one born to defy every single odd. A singularity.

When we found the Lost Sea, we were holding hands and talking about our future. I had just finished vomiting and I ran a slight fever. With Chopper's expert advice and help, I managed get down some small crackers a sip of water here and there.

My abdomen below feels full. I sleep most days.

It has been months and the last time Luffy and I made love, I felt something. I felt all of his love for me connect with a deeper part of me and I knew I conceived then.

I am not showing yet but I am scared as heck. My mother Olvia was not around to tell me about certain things, so I learned from books and conversations. Some stuff I had most sense about anyway.

I have not told Luffy anything, but Franky and Chopper keep watch over me as if I am about to flip overboard.

Does Franky know?

"You look lost."

"I know," I tell Luffy. He brushes a strand of my hair back and watches me.

"If you need to tell me something. I am here." He promises.

Instead of answering him with words I pull his face to mine and lay a lingering kiss on his sweet lips. "Thank you."

He squeezes my hand and Zoro approaches us.

"Hey uh, something doesn't look right out there."

Nami followed him too. "You see it too?"

Luffy and I gaze out at the waters. The sea is calm but something did seem…off.

"It's like a haze, but there is no heat. No sun. So it isn't a heat wave," Nami offered.

"Maybe it's non-threatening." Luffy shrugged and peered closer, using his hand to shade his eyes. "Looks pretty cool though. Like glitter!"

What happened next is a haze…

I think.

I think we hit something…

Several hours later…

When I came to, Luffy was over me and I was passed out on the deck near Nami's tangerine trees. Sprawled on the ground,

Zoro was on my right. Franky at the end of me. The side of his face bleeding. Luffy had concern all over his face.

"Robin?" He ran his hand through my hair.

I looked to my right, Brook is on the table, mouth agape and then I see Nami approach me with a rock.

I thought she was gonna throw it at me.

But then she handed it to Luffy. "You heard of this rock, right?" Nami asked me.

"Shh!" Luffy quieted her. "We need to know if she is okay first."

"What happened?"

Luffy answered first: "We hit some invisible wall. The haze…I think it is blocking us from the other side. In fact, we can see ourselves on the other side, but it's twisted."

The Lost Sea?

It does exist!

Impossible!

I sit up fast but my head hurts bad.

"You fell against Luffy, then the both of yall hit the deck pretty hard. Luffy came to first," Chopper came by with his stethoscope and gauze to check me over.

"Oh my." I groan as Zoro shakes his head solemnly. "So why is Brook tied up?"

Luffy bares his teeth. I realize he is seething in anger.

He shows me the rock. "Brook has been carrying this thing the whole time. Zoro overheard him talking to it and that is how we found out it can predict the future and could be why my dreams have been terrible."

"Hold on." I couldn't shake the fog from my head. This was confusing. "What does a rock have to do with your dreams, Luffy? How do you know?"

"He confessed."

"Oh wait." I think back. The Hulla Hulla rock. Bad dreams and impending death was a sure side effect. It haunted the strongest.

Luffy was strongest out of all of us.

Nooooo.

"Luffy," I grab on to his cardigan. "Toss that blasted rock away. Now!"

Without question. Without argument, Luffy reared his arm back and tossed the rock so far I heard an audible crack. Like a big piece of glass splintering.

We all stand up and look ahead of us.

It was like looking into a gigantic mirror. A galactic mirror!

Except.

Except.

Our reflections-our twins in this big mirror at sea, bore colder expressions. We all seemed pissed at something.

"Is that- us?"

"Yep." Nami said. "But what kind of us?"

I am curious.

I reach out my hand, touching nothing.

The other Nico Robin did too.

But…with a sneer, she slowly, methodically, throws up a middle finger.

"Oh wow!" Chopper and Usopp say at the same time.

What the hell is happening?

Before I can process anything else, I rub my lower belly-

To be continued…