A/N: A lot of people wants Sabo to be in the revolutionary, so I'll make it work somehow in my story. On the other hand, new crewmembers such as Vivi or Conis because it will affect the whole thing like Vivi not becoming a princess will affect the Alabasta greatly including the Reverie, making Conis will also affect the Sky Island. I'd like to keep the changes to a minimum since there's a great chance that everything will change of how things go. Let's say the Wholecake Arc ( don't read if you haven't gone too far ), Conis might be in danger in the Wholecake and if she goes in Wano there's a chance that everything will change.
Either way, it's a very risky task. And I don't like the fact that I'll change very huge things. Like Roger said, keep the changes you want into the minimum. I'm so sorry for those who wanted things this way, but I have to reject it. It's too huge of a risk. I'm really sorry! It's really hard to say no to people but I have to do this!
Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece
Last time on Chapter 31
"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."
"IT'S A FLOWER!" Sanji yells as he points at the entrance of the house.
"A FLOWER!?" Zoro yells in disbelief as he flinches in surprise and looks where Sanji was pointing at.
"Wait, no! It's a person!" Sanji shouts as he takes back what he said.
"What's with him…" Usopp quietly says as he looks at the person. The person has an appearance based on the flower with the same name, as seen with the petals around his head. He has a rather stocky and muscular body, is bald on the top of his head, but with white hair with yellow flower petal-like things, that have purple near the bottom of them, and a white beard that splits into two parts. His lower lip is noticeably larger than his upper. He wears a pink shirt with a yellow and green stripe with purple circles in the yellow along with blueish-grey shorts with sandals. He also wears glasses, a seaweed necklace, three gold bracelets, and a green-gem bracelet on his left wrist. He also has a scar on his left arm. "That old man took out that giant squid with one blow!" Usopp shouts as he stares at the old man "… Was he just fishing or did he do that to save us?"
All of them gulps as there was a long uncomfortable silence considering the person was looking at them, at Sanji especially. There was so much eye contact between them Sanji can't handle it anymore. "SAY SOMETHING!" Sanji yells as the old man only sits at his beach chair, takes a newspaper yet still looking at them.
"I-I-IF IT'S A FIGHT YOU WANT, T-THEN YOU'VE GOT ONE!" Usopp yells as he points at the old man "WE HAVE A CANNON ON OUR SIDE!"
"… Don't, or someone might end up dead…" The old man finally talks as Sanji slightly grins.
"Oh? And just who would that be…?" Sanji carefully asks as he puffs out smoke.
"Me." the old man calmly says.
"YOU!?" Sanji yells in anger with a funny angry face. 'IS THIS GUY PLAYING WITH ME!?'
"Now, now, don't get so worked up." Zoro says as he stops Sanji from beating the guy into a pulp. "Hey old man. Would you mind telling us just who you are, and just where this place exactly is?" Zoro says with a calm expression.
"That gramps thinks he can make a fool out of me…!?" Sanji says quietly as he grits his teeth in anger but doesn't cut his cigarette.
"… It's common courtesy to introduce yourself before asking others question, you know?" The old man says as he looks at Zoro straight in the eye.
"Oh right… Sorry about that." Zoro responds as he was ready to talk.
"My name is Crocus, the lighthouse keeper of Twin Capes. I'm 71 years old, a Gemini, and Type AB blood." The Crocus says as Zoro gets a tick mark in his forehead.
"NOBODY MINDS IF I KILL HIM, RIGHT!? " Zoro yells as he looks at everyone and was ready to take out his katana with a funny angry face.
"Calm down." Sanji says as he places a hand on Zoro's shoulder.
"You're wondering where this place is? You first trespass in my private resort and then start mouthing off with that attitude!? Does this place look like the stomach of a mouse!?" Crocus shouts as he remains his calm façade.
"S-So then we really must've been swallowed by a whale." Usopp shakily says as Nami widens her eyes in surprise.
"What do we do…!? I don't want to be digested!" Nami shouts as she was panicking.
"If it's an exit you want, it's right over there." Crocus says as he points at a huge gate.
"YOU CAN GET OUT OF HERE!?" Nami, Usopp, and Sanji yells in surprise "Why is there an exit inside a whale's stomach?" Usopp adds.
"And how is it that a door's floating in the sky " Nami asks as Usopp has an imaginary light bulb on the top of his head.
"No, wait… If you look carefully, the skies, the clouds…" Usopp says as he looks at the surrounding "Are all just painting…!" Usopp says as Nami widens her eyes "The inside of the whale's stomach has been painted over!"
"That's just my way of having a good time." Crocus calmly says as he looks at his newspaper.
"JUST WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING IN HERE ANYWAYS!?" Usopp yells in anger as Zoro places a hand on Usopp's shoulder.
"Just leave him be. We've found an exit so let's just get out of here." Zoro says calmly. Suddenly, the whole place shakes tremendously.
"WHAT'S THAT!?" Nami yells as all of them tries to not fall.
"So he's started again, has he…" Crocus calmly says as Nami looks at Crocus' place and widens her eyes.
"Look! That's no island either! It's a ship! An iron one at that, too!" Nami shouts as she points and sees that underneath the soil was iron.
"So then this ocean is actually stomach acid!? If we stay longer than this, our ship will be dissolved!" Usopp yells as he turns to Crocus "Hey! What's going on! Give us an explanation!"
"This whale, has started bashing his head against the Red Line again…!" Crocus says in a serious demeanor.
"WHAT!? " Both Sanji and Zoro yelled in surprise.
"Now that he mention it… I remember that whale's forehead was covered in scars…! And he was bellowing in the sky!" Nami says as Usopp has a hard time catching up.
"What does it all mean?" Usopp asks as Nami has visible sweats in her face.
"It means his suffering…!" Nami shouts as she pauses "I got it…! He must be trying to kill this whale from the inside!" Nami shouts as she looks at Crocus.
"What a nasty way to kill something…!" Usopp says as he was nervously looking at Crocus, who was exercising for some reason.
"Well, if the mystery's been solved, let's leave already. We'll be dissolved if we hang around any longer." Zoro says as Sanji puffs out smoke.
"That's right. I don't have anything against whaling and it's not like we're obligated to save this whale, either." Sanji says as the whale bellows loudly.
"Hey, if this whale keeps on rampaging like this, it's going to be hard to even reach the exit!" Usopp shouts as the waves were getting stronger and stronger.
"Well if we don't hurry, our lives and Luffy's will be in danger." Zoro says as Sanji reminds me of something important.
"Where's Luffy?" Sanji asks as he looks at Zoro. As if on time, a certain straw-hatted man came out of the house.
"Flower-ossan, I'm gonna do something else!" Luffy shouts as he stares at everyone and waves at them with a grin before walking to the other side. Everyone's jaw was literally on the ground and their eyes could've fallen out in their sockets.
"LUFFYYYYYY!?" Everyone shouts as Luffy ignores it. Slowly, Luffy uses Geppo and to a small door at the side of the giant gate then enters in it. Everyone was completely surprised and couldn't talk. Until the old man jumps in the stomach acid.
"AH! THAT OLD MAN JUST JUMPED IN!" Usopp yells as he points at Crocus jumped in the acid.
"What's he trying to do!? He's gonna get himself dissolved!" Sanji shouts as Zoro was looking at the small door.
"He's swimming towards the exit. We should hurry up and make our way to the exit before the whale gets anymore violent." Usopp says as Zoro nods.
"We've got no choice but to row! " Zoro says as he looks at the small door once again ' Luffy… Why did you have leave us that time, were you testing us…?'
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"Ok, Miss Wednesday. On the count of 3-2-1 baby, I'm opening the door. So don't lose your focus!" A young man who wears a golden crown on top of his red hair and has a number written on his cheeks. He wears a green suit with white lace along with a ruffled red scarf says. His attire makes him look like a prince or a king, but he isn't.
"Roger, Mr.9. Ready when you are." A young woman that has long blue hair, with two bangs hanging down, one on either side of her head. She has her hair pulled back into a ponytail. She is also very slender-bodied, having long thin legs and arms and prominent large breasts. She says as the two has guns ready. Mr.9 was about to talk when all of the sudden, the door was opened by a straw-hatted man.
"W-WHA!?" Both Miss Wednesday and Mr.9 yelled as the straw-hatted man grinned. By that time, Miss Wednesday has her eyes wide open.
'L-Luffy-nii!?' Miss Wednesday thought as Mr.9 pointed a gun on Luffy, Miss Wednesday did the same yet she was hesitant on it.
"Now, I can't let kids play on guns, it's dangerous." Luffy says with a grin. Mr.9's eyebrow twitched as he was called a kid.
"Why you…!" Mr.9 was about to shoot when all of the sudden, Luffy takes Mr.9 arm and takes the gun away, and on the process, he places Mr.9 on his left shoulder and does the same on Miss Wednesday. "L-Let us go!" Mr.9 shouts as he attempts to get away and squirms in discomfort and nervousness.
"Hmm… How about a no?" Luffy playfully says as he turns around and goes away with the two. Miss Wednesday, on the other hand, was pretending to be angry.
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"Luffy!?" Zoro shouts as everyone looks at Luffy, who was using Geppo to get close at them. "There're two other weirdos in Luffy's shoulders!" Zoro adds as there were gasps that followed.
"Hey! That old man's running away!" Usopp shouts as he points at Crocus.
"Don't mind him, for now, I'll explain some things!" Luffy shouts as he places the two on the deck with a grin.
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The whale bellows loudly and bangs his head at the Red Line 'Stop it, Laboon.' Crocus says in his thoughts while he was holding a large injector 'Stop hurting yourself. Crocus adds in his thoughts. "I don't have much sedatives left. Looks like I need to go make some more…" Crocus injects the sedative and the whale bellows loudly in pain. "That wall before you separates the oceans of world. You won't be able to bring it down even if you keep on bashing it until you die…!" Crocus quietly says as he was visibly sweating "So please stop, Laboon."
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"So… You went into the whale's mouth the moment it bellowed and used this technique called Geppo to create a safe landing?" Sanji asks, more like to confirm what he just heard.
"Yep." Luffy says casually as he was amused that Sanji was asking him while fawning over Miss Wednesday… Or should I say…
"The whale seems to have calmed down." Nami says as everyone notices that the bellowing and shaking have stopped.
"Well? Just who exactly are you guys…!?" Usopp shouts as the two flinches.
"M-Mr.9, these people are pirates." Miss Wednesday whispers to Mr.9 while secretly glancing at Luffy, who was looking at the meats that were locked in the mast.
"Y-yes I know, Miss Wednesday. But they seem understanding enough." Mr.9 whispers back.
"I WON'T LET YOU LAY EVEN A SINGLE FINGER ON LABOON, FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE!" Crocus yells as Miss Wednesday and Mr.9 looks at Crocus.
"If only we have our guns right now…" Mr.9 says as he curses in his breath.
"What… So then, he's been protecting the whale…!?" Nami says as she was surprised.
"Wha… Why is that old man…?" Usopp slowly asks as all of them except Luffy was surprised.
"What's going on!?" Nami shouts as she has no idea of what was happening.
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"This whale is an Island Whale, found normally in West Blue. It's the largest species of whale in the world. This one's name is Laboon." Crocus says as he was sitting in a beach chair while Miss Wednesday and Mr.9 is currently roped "And these two are rogues from a nearby town… Their goal is to hunt Laboon, because the meat from Laboon can feed their town for 2-3 years." Crocus explains calmly.
"Hmm…?" Luffy quietly says as Miss Wednesday secretly looks at Luffy, who has his eyebrow currently raised while looking at Miss Wednesday. Miss Wednesday only looks back to the ground.
"But I won't allow that! As for why Laboon keeps on bashing his head against the Red Line, and bellows while facing Reverse Mountain… There's a reason for all that too." Crocus pauses "Long ago, while I was minding my business as a lighthouse keeper, a certain group of friendly pirates came down Reverse Mountain. And following their ship was a little baby whale. That whale was Laboon. It seems that Laboon had accompanied their journey in West Blue, but fearing that Grand Line was too dangerous, they left him behind or so they thought. Normally, Island Whales are known to swim together in pods, but to Laboon, those pirates were his pod members. " Crocus pauses " Their ship was damaged when they arrived so they stayed here for several months to fix it. I became quite good friends with them during their stay. And so, on the day of their departure, their captain asked me."
"Could you please take care of Laboon for 2-3 years? Once we've sailed around the world, we'll come back for him no matter what."
Crocus repeats the word that he once heard a long time ago "Understanding their intent, Laboon waited patiently for them here." Crocus ends the story.
"So that's why he keeps on bellowing even today… And bashing himself against Red Line…" Nami quietly says as she looks at Laboon.
"That's right… It's been over 50 years since then…" Crocus says as everyone makes surprised gasps. "He still believes his friends will come back…" The whale bellows loudly in the end.
A/N: I THANK GAMERMARY FOR THE COVER IMAGE! I am so happy! I'm really sorry for those who wanted some people to join the strawhats but I want to keep it cool… I'm really sorry. But I decided to make Sabo a revolutionary, I'll find a way to do it without editing the owaris.