SailorStar9: With Chapter 151 uploaded, I present Chapter 152 this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Ace/Sasha, sibling Luffy/Sasha and Sabo/Sasha, Background Protector!Law/Sasha

Disclaimers: One Piece belongs to Oda Eiichirō-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC, the pairing and the fic idea.

Chapter 152: Arc 12: The Demon of the Ocean Strikes!


"Run!" Usopp shouted.

"Hard to port!" Franky ordered.

"They're coming after us." Brook shivered, Sanji taking the helm.

"That sounds familiar..." Nami blinked, recognizing the roar.

"They're so persistent." Zoro hissed.

"What do they want from us?" Luffy asked, as Caribou's galleon continued to slam against the Thousand Sunny.

"Wait a minute!" Nami remembered where she had heard the Sea Cow. "That's... hey, Mohmoo!" she called out to Mohmoo. "You're Mohmoo of the Arlong Pirates, aren't you? Do you remember me? I'm Nami. I was there at the Arlong Park."

"Hey, Luffy," Sanji looked up at the Sea Cow. "Doesn't he look familiar?"

"He's coming through the bubble." Luffy pointed out as Caribou stuck his head into the resin bubble.

"Someone's coming!" Chopper fled back.

"Guys, are you ready?" Caribou roared to his crew as he boarded the Thousand Sunny. "While they're dumbfounded, kill them all! Let's go!" he jumped onto the Sunny's deck, but was thrown back into his ship by the barrier Sasha had set up earlier. At the moment, the frightened Mohmoo fled with the entire Caribou crew on board.

"That's impressive." Franky was amazed.


"I wanna see a sea monster." Luffy whined as the ship continued traveling.

"Luffy, what are you up to?" Nami asked.

"Hey, Nami." Usopp voiced. "The direction we are heading is slightly off from where the Log Pose is pointing."

"Yeah, that's fine." Nami assured. "The right course should be southwest of where it is pointing."

"It's faster to go straight." Luffy pointed out. "Why should we do that?"

"If you go straight, you'd be taken away by the sea current and get stuck by an undersea mountain or volcano." Nami explained.

"But I thought the sea currents in the Grand Line were volatile." Usopp reminded. "Is there any stable current?"

"Yes, just one." Nami pulled on her sweater. "Everyone, it's going to get colder from here on out, so wear a coat or something."

"Yes, it's getting chilly." Brook agreed. "I can feel it on my skin, but I don't..."

"You're a skeleton." Chopper cut him off. "You don't have skin."

"Chopper-san, you can't do that." Brook bemoaned. "You can't steal my line."

"Are we going somewhere cold?" Zoro asked. "Not the deep sea?"

"Don't you know that the water in the deep sea is cold?" Franky questioned. "Like a bath tub, hot water goes up and cold water goes down."

"I see." Usopp blinked. "If the sea is the same as a bath tub, it's gonna get colder as you go deeper."

"The temperature isn't the only difference." Brook stated. "In the deep layer of the sea, there are giant currents called deep currents that you don't get to see very often. Those currents flow totally independently from surface currents."

"There are currents under currents?" Usopp gawked. "You know many things."

"All currents are connected." Franky took over. "One current flows eastward and the other one flows westward. They could also flow upward or downward. It's like a giant dragon."

"Deep currents flow really slowly." Brook added. "Once they flow to the deep sea, it takes 2000 years until they flow upward to the surface. That's why there are a number of myths about the dark and undiscovered deep currents. Monsters! Curses! Spirits of the dead!"

"But we're gonna get on a downward flow." Nami added. "That's how we get to the deep sea."

"This is it." Robin looked up from her book. "Nami, I see it."

"It's like a massive waterfall in the sea." Usopp gawked at the enormous downward wave before them.

"Is it really okay to go with the flow?" Nami turned to Franky.

"Don't worry about the ship." Franky assured. "Sunny is the strongest ship built from the treasure tree Adam, and backed with Sasha's shield runes, everything's going to work out fine."

"It's right there..." Chopper stammered, hanging onto Brook for support as he watched the debris of a sunken ship rise in front of them.

"Cut it out, guys." Usopp chided.

"Behind you..." Nami pointed as one of the Kraken's tentacles hovered above the ship.

"Behind me..." Usopp turned and screamed in horror when he saw the tentacle right in front of him. "It's the Kraken! The monster octopus!"

"Looks like he broke a lot of ships." Franky noted, seeing the destroyed ship within on of the Kraken's tentacles. "Ships that had left for the New World have been attacked."

"I have a good idea." Luffy beamed. "Let's tame him. Let's tame the octopus and make him pull our ship."

"What did you say, Luffy?" Usopp demanded. "Take a good look! You don't have to take a good look since it's huge."

"We're dead." Chopper sobbed.

"It must've been around for several hundred of years." Usopp added. "The Kraken appears in many myths in the world. It's like a visionary creature."

"It has no bones and I'm a skeleton without any flesh." Brook mused. "It's the polar opposite of me."

"You're quite good." Franky peered at Robin's sketch of the Kraken.

"You can't see this kind of thing often, so.." Robin continued drawing.

"I'll help you, but do you have any plan, Luffy?" Zoro asked.

"The problem is that we're in the sea." Luffy mused.

"No," Usopp corrected. "The problem is the size of it. It would be dangerous even if we were on land."

"Shift the helm to the south." Nami instructed.

"Nami, go straight to the octopus." Luffy protested.

"Don't be a fool." Nami snapped. "The octopus will..."

"Something's coming from behind." Franky reported, peering through his binoculars.

"They came back!" Usopp gaped as Caribou's ship shot past them, only to have the Kraken reach out one tentacle and crash the galleon into pieces.

"It's coming!" Usopp warned as the Kraken shot towards them.

"It's too big!" Chopper gaped as the ship was rocked by a swipe of the giant octopus' tentacle.

"How can we fight against it?" Nami wondered.

"Third Gear..." Luffy was prepared to release his attack as Zoro drew his swords.

"No!" Usopp pulled them back. "You'll break the bubble."

"Chicken Voyage!" Franky propelled the Sunny backwards, barely avoiding the swinging tentacle.

"Can we get away somehow?" Nami asked.

"Don't do anything." Luffy stepped forward. "I'll beat it."

"You're gonna break the bubble!" Chopper objected.

Any objections anyone had were silenced when Sasha let out a pulse of Divine Haki. In response, the Kraken ceased its attack and drew its head close to the ship.

"Surume," Sasha greeted the giant octopus. "Have you forgotten about me?"

Said Kraken let out a surprised expression, before grinning when it recognized its mistress' Haki.

"Something's in there." Chopper noted, seeing Megalo swim out of Surume's exposed tuber. "A shark?"

"Isn't that shark wearing something?" Sanji wondered. "What a polite shark." he added, Megalo swimming towards them and nodding its thanks, before swimming off.

"Surume," Sasha scolded the sheepish Kraken. "Did you eat things you're not supposed to?"

The giant octopus then let out a panicked expression when it was suddenly swept away by the underwater current, the said current taking the Sunny along with it.


SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.