Chapter 23: Revers mountain, my shortest chapter
Summery: I may never know how it truly began, but I do know that I never truly had a choice in the events that led me here. I am in one piece now, and have unwillingly left my own world behind. That is all that matters, and all I need to know.
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Status: Season one is now 53/53 as of this chapter, after this, onto the Grandline!
1) The pairing poll now has 23 voters, with both Zoro and ace tied with 12 votes each. Who will win? Vote to decide!
Dthehalfdragon : Here's your answer. :D
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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It took us all a minute to finish our celebrating, but once we were finished, Nami went and looked at the map, then called us all into the kitchen, telling us there was a problem.
Once we were all siting at the table, with Usopp manning the ruder, Nami slammed the map onto the table.
"Look at this." She said in a tone that told us that whatever it was that she wanted us to look at was a serious problem. "I've heard the rumors, but it's written here on the map too. According to the rumors and to the map, the entrance to the Grandline is-"
"A mountain." I said, not even bothering to look at the map as I started eating the meal that Sanji had made me just before we entered the storm. "And if Usopp continues pulling on the ruder behind me, it's going to break. The current is way to strong for any of us to turn it. We are already heading into the entrance of the Grandline and we can't turn the ship now that it's this close. It would cause the ship to capsize."
Everyone glanced at the helm for a second before turning back to the map in front of us while Usopp let go of it and came and sat down at the table, understanding that I was probably right about him breaking it.
I'm usually not wrong about those kinds of things.
"So it is true then." She said, looking at the map again as Sanji stuck a fork in Luffy's hand for trying to grab a bite of my food.
Good watch dog.
"You mean we have to crash through the mountain?" Zoro asked as Luffy continued shouting about his aching hand. "The hell?"
"I thought it was crazy to, but if Kaede says it's true, then I guess it must be. Care to tell us what to expect?" Nami asked, turning to look at me as she wasn't really sure if the map was all that reliable as it had once belonged to Buggy, and I seemed to know what we were going to encounter.
"Alright, alright, I'll explain." I said, taking another big bite of my food before continuing. "The only way to get into the Grandline, apart from the calm belt, which is out of the question as you already know, is to go up one of the canals up the mountain side. The currents and waves here are so strong that they actually force water to move UP the mountain, instead of letting it fall down it. This is why the mountain is called revers mountain. Because water flows in revers on it.
"There is also a small problem once we get to the top, as we happen to be coming from the worst part of the mountain. We have to make a 315 degree turn in order to get to the Grandline, which is extremely hard." I said, pointing to the lines on the map that showed our path to the Grandline.
"EW! Sounds like fun!" Luffy said stupidly, causing Usopp to back hand the side of his head like he always did when someone did something stupid.
"Idiot! Are you trying to get us killed?!" He demanded, not liking the prospect of having to make such a dangerous turn when there seemed to be land on either side of our path, meaning that it was a huge possibility that we were going to crash in the process.
"What are you talking about?" Zoro said, completely ignoring Usopp and Luffy as he addressed what both I and Nami were saying. "Even if there was a canal, it's impossible for a ship to climb a mountain."
"Not if the currents are really strong enough to make the water run up the side of the mountain. If they're really that strong, then all we need to do is figure out a way to turn the ship if we aren't able to use the ruder." She said, glancing at me to see if I was really sure that trying to move the ruder would break it.
"Of course! There's no way Nami swan and Kaede sweet would be wrong!" Sanji told Zoro, only to be completely ignored by him as the green haired man simply waited for one of us to continue.
I simply nodded my head at Nami, informing her that I was sure trying to turn the ruder would cause it to break off.
I really didn't want to be stuck with out a paddle when we first got into the Grandline, and the anime had never actually shown how it had gotten fixed, though I was pretty sure that it was done by one of Usopp's bad patch-up jobs.
"So if we can figure out how to turn at the top of the mountain, then we should be fine." She said, looking at the map again to read another one of the notations on it. "It also says that Reverse Mountain is a winter island, so that means that the currents that collide with the red line get sent to the bottom of the ocean. If we can't make it into the canal, then the Going Merry will slam straight into the side of the red line, and the ship will be destroyed."
Everyone's jaw dropped at her statement, including mine. The thought of getting crushed against the side of Reverse Mountain wasn't exactly a happy one. I really didn't want to die at such a young age, especially not before I could get Lil fixed.
What? Don't look at me like that! You try dealing with a cat when she's in heat!
"Ah, so it's a mystery mountain." Luffy said, laughing at a joke that he had just made that none of us were able to understand.
"I don't think you understand at all..." Nami sighed heavily, wishing Luffy would actually pay attention for once.
Our attentions were suddenly diverted from the meeting as the ship suddenly started rocking violently, alerting us to the fact that we were nearing the mountain.
"Quick! The sails!" Nami called as we all quickly made our way out onto the deck, with Lil and Choco staying back with my orders.
I didn't want them to fall off the ship, and with Lil being so small and Choco being a feather foot, that was very likely to happen if they went out onto the deck with us.
"Right away, Nami swan!" Sanji shouted as he started climbing up one of the ropes that led to the crows nest above so that he could doing as Nami had asked. "Luffy! Get your ass over here!" He added, wanting some help with his task.
Luffy grumbled under his breath about mean people as he joined Sanji at the top of our ship and started helping him put the sails away.
As the sails were put away, the extraordinarily thick fog that had been blinding our way started to clear, reveling that the Grandline was just in front of us.
"Oi! I can see the mystery mountain!" Luffy shouted from his position on top of on of the sails.
Everyone ran up the stairs to get a better look at the mountain, staring in shock when they found that the water really was traveling up the mountain.
"Man! It's huge!" Usopp shouted in horror, unable to believe his eyes.
"The entrance of the Grandline..." Nami said, unable to believe her eyes as well.
"Wohoo! So that's the red line, eh?" Luffy asked excitedly, being the only one of us that wasn't even a little bit worried.
Screw worried, I was ready to shit in my pants.
"Y-you c-can't even see the peak past he clouds!" Usopp shouted in horror, wandering how high up we were going to go.
It was at that moment that he ship gave a violent jerk, causing most of us to hit the deck with a loud thud.
"AH! We're getting sucked in! Grab the helm!" Luffy shouted as he hung from the mast.
"Got it!" Luffy and Sanji shouted, only to stop when I shouted at them.
"NO! What part of 'it will break' didn't you understand?!" I demanded, grabbing both of them and pulling them away from it.
The less things we had to fix on the Going Merry, the better.
"Then how are we supposed to turn?!" Zoro shouted as we jerked again.
"That's Luffy's department, I'm just the warning system!" I shouted as I was nearly knocked off my feet by yet another violent jerk.
This was so not what I had expected.
"AH! We're going to crash into one of the gates!" Nami shouted as we were suddenly able to see a large water gate before us that we were supposed to be passing through, not crashing into the side of.
"Gum Gum Balloon!" Luffy shouted, jumping in between the ship and the gate and expanding into his Gum Gum Balloon form, successfully causing us to bounce right off of him and get back onto the right course.
"Luffy!" Zoro shouted as the ship moved past Luffy and the rubber man started falling toward the water. "Grab hold!" He shouted, holding out his hand and waiting for Luffy to Gum Gum his arm over to him.
Liffy didn't need to be told twice. In an instant, he twisted his body around and slung his arm over to Zoro, causing it to stretch out as far as it could, allowing Zoro to grab onto it.
As Luffy came flying at me and Zoro, I dove out of the way and Zoro simply leaned back, causing Luffy to fly past us and crash right into the deck of the ship, putting a hole in it.
Usopp and Sanji started dancing around happily, glad that we were alright now and were on our way to the Grandline.
"We made it!" Everyone shouted happily as we continued sailing up the side of the mountain.
"And now!" Nami said happily, taking her rain coat off now that we were past the huge ass storm. "We'll just head straight to the peak!"
Once Luffy's head was unstuck he joined the rest of us at the front of the ship, including Choco and Lil as I had let them come out now that we were past the storm.
"Sweet!" He shouted happily, grinning from ear to ear at the fact that we were now heading straight for the Grandline. "EW! Awesome!"
All of us were so busy grinning and laughing that we didn't even notice a strange man with purple swirly hair like troll hair or an ice cream cone come out of the cabin and jump onto the railing of the ship next to us.
"You bastards!" He shouted angrily, getting all of our attentions instantly.
"Uh-oh." Nami said, just as horrified to see him there as the rest of us were.
"The Okama fruit guy..." Luffy said, though I had no idea what the hell he was talking about.
What the hell is a Okama fruit?
"Bastard, you're still alive?" Zoro asked, sounding annoyed by that little fact.
"You don't give up..." Luffy said, wandering why the guy didn't want to quite already.
"Shut up!" The purple haired ass hole shouted angrily, causing me to roll my eyes at him. "You have crossed me for the last time! Thanks to you my dream of obtaining the Ryuukotsu is gone! But I wont let it end like that! I will at least have the pleasure of taking that 40,000,000 beli head of yours!"
"And you don't want my head to?" I said, an eyebrow twitching at the fact that my bounty meant nothing to him.
"Huh? You do look a bit familiar..." he started, looking me up and down for a second before he finally realized who I was. "And a 20,000,000 bounty too! My lucky-"
he never got a chance to finish his sentence as I promptly let a Thunder spell loose on him.
"THUNDER!" I shouted, hitting in in the chest and sending him flying off the ship and into the water below. "Sorry about that guys, I completely forgot all about him."
It wasn't a lie either, I had completely forgotten about him. He wasn't exactly a big character, so I hadn't remembered him at all.
"Yeah, that's fine." each of them said in their own way, waving my comment off and turning back to the front of the ship, waiting for our sharp turn to come up.
"Besides," Nami said, causing me to look over at her. "Since he's a hammer, he wont be bothering us anymore!"
"And even if he COULD swim," Usopp said happily while Sanji simply stared at me and Nami with hearts in his eyes like always. "this currant's just to choppy!'
Sanji was just about to say something that I would probably end up hitting him for when we were all suddenly covered in a thick white cloud, causing Luffy to shouted out happily.
"We made it to the clouds!" He shouted happily knowing that this meant we were probably almost half way to the Grandline.
The fact that my ears popped and we cleared the clouds while still traveling upwards wasn't exactly comforting. The only thing about it that was comforting was the fact that we could now see the peak of the mountain, which was only a short distance in front of us.
"Lil! Choco!" I shouted, running over to both of them and grabbing onto them so that they wouldn't go flying off when we turned.
Because that would be bad.
I had to admit it though, the shimmering flecks of ice and water that were being sped through the air at the top of the peak was beautiful. I had never seen anything even a little bit like it in my life. Snow wasn't even anything like it.
It was more like the effect that most people tried to get when using glitter in something, but that couldn't even ever manage to look like this. It was one of the greatest things in the world, and I was sharing it with my friends and crew mates.
Whoever it was that was the dreamer for this world, was probably one of the luckiest people in existence for being able to see this when ever he or she wanted. It was the kind of thing that most people dreamed of seeing, beautiful and exciting.
"Look! The peak!" Nami shouted happily, only drawing me out of my trance a tiny bit as she pointed up ahead to the same place that I was looking. "It's the peak!"
we finally came over the top of the mountain a few seconds later, shooting into the sky and floating for a few moments as we all smiled around excitedly.
"Ya-hoo!" Luffy shouted, holding onto his hat so that it wouldn't go flying off while I held onto my cat and my chocobo.
When the ship fell out from under are feet and down onto the right path that led to the Grandline, we all shouted in horror. I hadn't remembered and still couldn't remember ever seeing this happen in the anime and I was less then thrilled to be up in the air without my broom.
I might be a witch, but without my broom, I had a fear of heights that I wasn't to happy about experiencing.
"AH!" we all shouted as we fell down and back onto the ship, happy that we were no longer stuck in mid air.
Once the shock of falling finally wore off, I couldn't help but stare ahead of us in excitement.
'Home, the farther we go, then the stronger I get, and the closer I get to home.' I thought happily, snuggling Lil just a little bit closer and kissing the top of her head happily.
"I can see it!" Luffy shouted happily, getting all of our attentions as he did so. "The greatest ocean in the world... The Grandline! And somewhere ahead, one piece is waiting!"
All of us smiled at him as we turned back to the path before us, all of us knowing that he was right, as well as wrong.
One piece was ahead of us, and so was the greatest ocean in the world, the Grandline, but our dreams were also ahead of us, calling out to each of us and waiting for us to find them. It was in this ocean, the Grandline, that we would each find whatever ti was that we were looking for.
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Is it sad if I'm only updating so quickly because I want to get to the sky island ark?
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NEW QUESTION: Should Kaede catch the dingy dingy bug on little garden with Nami? Should she be the only one to get it? Or should she not get it at all.
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