This chap is more of a filler...I'll make the next more interesting...
Day 4
As I'm writing this, it's already our fifth day sailing in the Grand Line.
The first thing that really made this place truly unique was Reverse Mountain. How many mountains do you know have water flowing UP instead of down? It was insane! We spent the whole ride upwards stopping Willy from crashing into the mountain walls. Then when we reached the top we just dashed down at top speed.
Most of the other new guys were shrieking in fear, but it was really exciting for me. Feels a bit like being in fight. The blood's racing and the heart's pounding, I was laughing I think. The older crew members were laughing too.
After we reached the bottom of the mountain, Willy was pretty banged-up. Luckily, there was a lighthouse nearby and the owner let us stay there while we repaired our ship.
The lighthouse keeper's name is Crocus. Apparently he's been looking after the lighthouse for quite some time. He has this whale that lives near him called Laboon. Apparently the whale's been with him for a few years, waiting for some pirates to come and meet him.
The repairs took us two months to finish. I know I said we've been sailing the Grand Line for five days, but we spent the first two months here repairing Willy. But enough about that.
Grand Line is just…different. Normal compasses don't work here, we navigate by these special things called Log Posts. I don't know how they work, but they're supposed to get us to the next island and lead us to the next, so I guess that's all I need to know. The weather for the first few days was totally random. It snowed for one minute before it became hot followed by a torrent of rain.
Oh, guess what, our first day after we left Crocus's place we ran into a damn Sea King. This one was a hundred times bigger than Willy and a lot more savage than the one I fought back in East Blue. Captain took care of it. That's the first time I've seen him use his Devil Fruit power. Turns out he ate a Logia called the Mizu Mizu No Mi. He could use water based attacks and we were surrounded with it. He just turned himself into a tsunami and blew the Sea King away, but Roy and I had to fish him out of the sea after that
The marines here are stronger too. We ran into a ship on our second day of sailing and they just started blasting their cannons at us. I had to fight seriously against them. But we won and that's all that matters. The next two days were calm aside from attacks by a few sea monsters.
Right now, we're docked at an island called Whiskey Peak and it's got these huge cacti-like hills on it. But there's no one living here, none that I can see anyway. Captain gave us a break so I got some time to write here now.
So far, my time in Grand Line has been pretty relaxed, but Roy and Cook both warned me not to get complacent, that anything can happen here. I guess I should listen to them.
Anyway, our next stop is this island called Little Garden. What a prissy name for an island. I want a little bit of action for crying out loud!
That's it for now.
Newgate out.
