A/N: I'm so excited for the cover~! Btw, I might go slower in making chapters because I might plan on making a story again.
Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece
Last time on Chapter 30
"So we've reached Grand Line, have we?" Sanji says as he takes a barrel "Well this calls for a celebration!" Sanji shouts as he places the barrel in the middle. "To find All Blue!" Sanji shouts as he places his foot in the barrel.
"To become the Pirate King!" Luffy shouts as he grins and places his foot. The others followed.
"To be the Greatest Swordsman…" Zoro…
"To draw a map of the world!" Nami…
"T-t-to become a brave warrior of the seas!" Usopp…
" OFF TO GRAND LINE WE GO! " All of them shouts as they break the barrel.
'I won't let this chance slip away!' Luffy thought as he sees the smiling faces of his Nakama.
"The entrance to Grand Line, is a mountain." Nami says as all of the members are in the lounge. There was a storm brewing outside. Apparently, the light that was guiding them went off, but it was no problem for Nami and the others.
"A mountain!?" Usopp says in disbelief as his head tilts over to the left while his arms were crossed.
"Exactly. I had a hard time believing it myself when I looked at the map, but look!" Nami says as he places the map down for everyone to see. "The Light of Guidance was directly pointing at Reverse Mountain located right here on Red Line."
"Does that mean we have to crash through the mountain?" Usopp asks as Nami shakes her head and points a place where it was on the edge of the Paradise's line.
"No, there's a waterway right here." Nami responds as Usopp's eye widens and starts to imagine Going Merry climbing a mountain.
"A waterway? That's crazy!" Usopp pauses "Even if that waterway really is there, there's no way a ship could climb up a mountain!"
"But that's what the map says." Nami says as she takes the map and waves it in front of Usopp.
"That's right. As if Nami-swan could ever be wrong!" Sanji says as he defends Nami.
"But isn't that the map you stole from Buggy? How dependable could it be?" Zoro says as he looks at Nami. "In the first place, why do we even have to enter directly through the entrance anyway? Couldn't we just head directly south and still enter?"
"No, we can't! And there's a perfectly good reason for that." Nami shouts as she sighs.
"Actually, we can. And there's also a perfectly good reason for that " Luffy says with a very mischievous glint in his eyes and in his grin. Everyone looks at him, Nami's eyes widen in horror though.
"Wait, wha? Guys! The storm suddenly stopped!" Usopp says before Nami could retort to Luffy.
"Hey, you're right." Sanji says as he peeks at the window.
" What? That can't be… " Nami says as she turns "That storm should have directly led us to the entrance…" Nami adds as sweat is visibly seen on her face.
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"Wow, such a nice day!"
"I wonder what happened to the storm?"
"Haha haha!"
As the others talk, Nami's eye widens in horror again and she gapes. "Oh no!" Nami shouts as Luffy laughs while he leans on the mast. "We've entered Calm Belt…!"
"Calm Belt?"
"What's that?"
"Hey, look. Even though the storm's still going on over there, it's perfectly calm over here…"
"THIS IS NO TIME TO BE STANDING ABOUT! GO GRAB THE OARS AND START ROWING AS FAST AS YOU CAN! WE HAVE TO RETURN BACK TO THE STORM IMMEDIATELY!" Nami shouts as she starts barking out orders to everyone.
"But the weather's so nice here…" Zoro says as Nami points at him.
"FINE, THEN I'LL GIVE YOU YOUR EXPLANATION, RIGHT NOW! WE'VE DRIFTED SOUTH EXACTLY AS YOU SUGGESTED DOING!" Nami shouts as Zoro raises an eyebrow.
"Oh, so we're in Grand Line now?" Zoro says as he looks in the opposite direction.
"IF IT WERE THAT EASY, ANYBODY COULD JUST COME TO GRAND LINE WHENEVER THEY WANTED!" Nami shouts while it looks like she was venting her anger. "Listen! The Grand Line is surrounded by two ocean belts. And those two windless belts known as the Calm Belt are exactly where we're stuck in right now!"
"Calm, eh? Sure seems that way with no wind and all. So? What's your point?" Zoro asks as he looks at the area.
"THE POINT IS THAT-!" Before Nami could continue, the ship was shaking.
"AHH! IS THIS AN EARTHQUAKE? BUT WE'RE OUT IN THE OPEN SEAS!" Usopp shouts as he was shaking. Luffy's arms were crossed and he had a crazy grin on his face, and even the ship was shaking, his body stayed still while the others had trouble doing so. When all of the sudden, large fishes, and what I meant by large, is that the ship isn't even ¼ of those fishes, raised up and now the Merry is in the middle of one of those fish's head. Nami, Sanji, and Zoro made horrified faces while Usopp is ready to faint.
"–This place is a den… For sea kings…" Nami says as she held in the mast for her dear life while her tears fall. "The big ones, especially…" Nami adds.
Luffy, who was unusually quiet, makes a laugh from mute to a very loud laugh. Everyone looks at him like he was crazy. After his laugh, Luffy makes a grin that made everyone shudder. "Looks like we'll have tons of meat…" Luffy says as he jumps in the railing while he looks at everyone. "While I fight, start rowing."
Magically, Sanji, Zoro, and Usopp have paddlers in their hands "AYE AYE!" The three yells and starts rowing as Luffy fights and makes the poor sea kings into sashimi so that it could fit later on.
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Finally, everyone got out in the Calm Belt and went back to the storm. It was only seconds, but in that seconds, Luffy got tons of sea kings and even helped the three to paddle their way in the storm by boosting them, Luffy did it so that it could right on time like a long time ago.
"Oh thank God… We're back in the storm now…" Usopp says as all of them are currently face-planted in the ground.
"Now do you understand why we have to use the entrance?" Nami says as she sighs. Luffy laughs lowly and secures the meats by ropes and locking it on the mast.
"Yeah…" Zoro says as he leans in the mast, "Understood…" Zoro adds as he smells the meat locked in the mast.
After a minute of silence, except the sounds the storm was making, Nami places her two hands in the ground and stands up. "Ah, I got it…!"
"What?" Zoro asks as he peeks in his arms to look at Nami.
"We really are going to climb up the mountain!" Nami says as Zoro gives her an unimpressed look.
"You still going on about that?" Zoro says as he was enough of the climbing stuff.
"It must be due to the sea currents. If strong currents from each of the four seas, were to all head towards that mountain…" Nami pauses "Then they would drive the water up the waterway. And at the very top, the currents will merge and come out to the Grand Line! Since we're already riding the currents, all we have to worry about is steering properly." Nami explains as she makes the image in her head. "Reverse Mountain is a winter island so the currents that hit its edge will travel down the bottom of the sea. So if we fail to enter the waterway, we'll crash down and get dragged down to the bottom of the sea. Got it?"
"Nami-swan, you're amazing~!" Sanji shouts despite the current storm going on.
"Never heard of a ship going up a mountain before." Zoro says as all of them stands up.
"I've heard a bit." Sanji says as he looks at Zoro, who also looked at him.
"About the mountain?" Zoro asks as Sanji smiles.
"No, but I've heard things about Grand Line…" Sanji pauses "Supposedly, half of the people die just trying to go in. Entering it is no easy task."
"I SEE THE MOUNTAIN!" Luffy shouts as he grins and looks at the mountain as he holds to the railing and leans over it.
"WAIT! WHAT'S THAT HUGE SHADOW!? IT'S HUGE!" Usopp yells as his jaw drops.
" So that's the Red Line? " Sanji asks as he looks at the mountain, well not the whole mountain.
"I CAN'T EVEN SEE THE TOP BECAUSE OF THE CLOUDS!" Usopp yells as the mountain was so huge they can't see what was on the top of it.
"Get a good grip of the rudder so we don't get dragged down under!" Luffy shouts as Sanji and Usopp holds the rudder.
"JUST LEAVE IT TO US!" Sanji and Usopp yells as they tightly grip the rudder.
"Amazing." Nami says as she looks at the mountain in awe and fascination.
"I can't believe it… The ocean is-" Zoro was cut off before he could finish.
"IT'S THE ENTRANCE TO THE WATERWAY!" Usopp yells in fascination.
"–Really going up a mountain…" Zoro continues like no one interrupted him.
"We're veering off course! Turn a little to the right!" Luffy shouts as he runs towards Zoro and gives him his straw hat, much to the surprise of Zoro, but nonetheless, he held it tightly.
"RIGHT!? TURN TO STARBOARD!" Usopp yells as they turn to the right, because of so much force, the rudder broke. And at that time, Luffy holds his breath.
"WE'RE GONNA CRASH!" Nami yells as her tears were falling.
"GOMU-GOMU…" Luffy quietly says as everyone looks at him "BALLOON!" Luffy inflates himself rapidly through his mouth, and turns into a balloon-like person and bounces the ship so that it could get into the right course. After Luffy deflates himself, Zoro automatically stretches his hand to Luffy's impossibly stretched hand and helps him get to the ship.
After that, it was silence, not the same time where they celebrated. All of them had their jaws on the ground, even Zoro who helped him. Zoro comes closer to him and looks at him in the eye and gives his hat back. "Explain."
"Devil fruit. Gomu – Gomu no Mi. ( Rubber – Rubber fruit )." Luffy says casually while he wears his hat again. There was a pregnant silence before everyone's jaw dropped more.
"YOU HAD A DEVIL FRUIT!?" All of them yelled as Luffy laughed at their faces.
"Yep!" Luffy says as everyone's face turned to their funny ones.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TOLD US SOONER!?" All of them asked as Luffy gave them an unimpressed look.
"Because you didn't ask." Luffy says before he looks at the adventure that was right in front of them "I can see the 'Grand Line' up ahead!" All of them got over it quickly as their excitement electrifies through their body. All of them grinned and looked at the same direction Luffy was looking at. "FULL SPEED AHEAD!"
Suddenly, they heard a strange noise. "Hm? Did you hear something just now?" Zoro asks as he crosses his arms and looks around.
"I wouldn't be surprised if that's just noise from the wind. The terrain here is quite odd after all." Nami says as she looks at Zoro. Once again, the strange noise was heard.
"What's that…" Usopp quietly says as he uses a strange contraption that was around Usopp's left eye.
"Nami-swan~! There's a mountain up ahead!" Sanji shouts as he points to the so-called 'mountain' and looks at Nami.
"A mountain?" Nami asks as she looks at Sanji "That can't be! Once we pass the Twin Capes up ahead, we should reach the open sea." Once again, the strange noise was heard. After a while, all of them ( except Luffy ) had terrified faces.
"THAT'S NO MOUNTAIN! IT'S A WHALE!" All of them yelled as the whale 'Buoh'-d them.
"WHAT DO WE DO!? SHOULD WE FIGHT!?" Usopp yells as all of them was panicking.
"ARE YOU KIDDING!? HOW THE HECK ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FIGHT SOMETHING THAT BIG!?" Nami yells back as she has a very funny angry and mixed with fear face.
"BUT IT'S BLOCKING OUR WAY!" Usopp shouts back.
"WE'RE TOO CLOSE TO SEE ANYTHING! IT LOOKS LIKE JUST A GIANT WALL!" Sanji yells as his cigarette was still okay after all the winds and storm.
"Ah, that's right! Maybe the whale just hasn't noticed us yet!" Nami shouts as she searches where the eyes are.
"WELL IF WE DON'T DO ANYTHING SOON, WE'RE GONNA CRASH! THERE'S AN OPEN SPACE UP LEFT!" Zoro pauses as he points at the space "TURN PORTSIDE!"
"BUT THE RUDDER'S BROKEN!" Usopp yells as Zoro clicks his tongue.
"WELL WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING! I'LL COME HELP TOO!" Zoro yells as he follows Usopp towards the rudder.
Nami felt like someone was missing, someone importa- "WHERE'S LUFFY!?" Nami yells as everyone stops and looks everywhere.
"D-did Luffy ran away…?" Usopp shakily asks as Zoro punch the back of Usopp's head.
"Are you stupid!? Even if Luffy ran away, there's no place he can hide or go away! And Luffy isn't that kind of person in the first place!" Zoro shouts as he defends Luffy 'Where the hell are you in this crucial time!?'
"WE'RE GONNA CRASSSSHHH!" Nami yells as all of her colors left her body. Luffy's special seat breaks as it hits the whale's body. It almost hit Nami's face, good thing that she ducked "Oh God… I almost died just now…"
Then the whale's eye was at them. All of their color left, they were like a sheet of paper. Suddenly, the whale opens its mouth and the ship was getting sucked in along with the water.
"AAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!"
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"What do you make of this?" Sanji slowly asks as everyone was completely safe. Usopp was totally baffled.
"What do I make of this…?" Zoro asks, completely unsure what to say.
"Yeah, what's your explanation for this… I could've sworn we were swallowed up by a whale but…" Sanji pauses as he puffs out smoke "Are we just dreaming or something?"
Zoro gulps, unsure of the answer he was going to give "… Yeah, this has got to be a dream…"
"Then… What's with that house on that island?" Sanji asks as Zoro looks at the house. It has got to be a dream. Or they're already dead.
"Must be an illusion…" Zoro answers as there was silence.
"Then what about this?" Sanji asks as a giant squid came up the water in front of him, his face completely calm.
"IT'S A GIANT SQUID! " Nami and Usopp shouts in fear as they get away as quickly as they can. Zoro and Sanji were ready to fight when all of the sudden, a spear-like weapon killed the giant squid.
"Seems like there's a person here." Zoro says as Sanji slightly grins.
"Let's hope it's a person." Sanji says as sweat was visibly seen on the two's face.
"B-by the way, where did Luffy go all this time…?" Usopp asks as he and Nami were on the floor, crying.
"I've had enough… I wanna go home…" Nami says as she whimpers in fear as the giant squid was slowly being dragged into the house.
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"A ship… Are they a friend on yours, Strawhat?" A person asks while Luffy comfortably sits on a chair.
"Yep."
A/N: Quick question, do people want a revolutionary Sabo or not? I'll make a Q&A question about me, PM only if you wanna ask. PM only if you want to say what kind of Sabo you like better. xDD