Ch. 5- Olga's Secret
One Piece © Oda
Blizzard, Monkey D. Aika, Kumi, and Anubis © Me
Darkness...the sound of water lapping at a sandy shore...the feeling of a wet, flat tongue licking at his cheek...wait, what?
Luffy groaned as he began to open his eyes, only to gasp as he remembered what had just happened: he had fallen into the river of Bonburi's stomach acid, and right before he blacked out, he saw Olga and Aika racing towards him on the back of Elizabeth. Luffy sat up, desperately looking around, but then…
"Big Brother!"
Luffy gasped as he saw Aika, safe and sound, and wearing his hat on top of hers.
"Aika!" Luffy exclaimed as he hugged his younger half-sister. "You're okay, and you saved my hat, too!"
"Shishishi!" Aika giggled. "Of course!"
Luffy soon sat up, dusting his hat off his pants, before he put on his head and got a good look at his surroundings: a bright light shining up above, a jungle behind his back, a sandy beach with fossils of different kinds of animals, and a vast lake before him.
"Well, in any case," Luffy said as he began to walk towards the lake, "we gotta find Nami and the others."
"Wait, Big Brother!" Aika cried. "Don't walk in there! You might-"
Splish! FSSSSH~! As Luffy set foot in the water, he suddenly felt a burning sensation on his ankle, causing him to cry out in pain before he jumped back to the beach.
"I tried to tell you," Aika said as her older half-brother blew on his foot.
"Be careful, dummy!"
Luffy and Aika turned to see Olga and Elizabeth approach them.
"If you soak in Lord Bonburi's stomach acids," Olga began, "you'll dissolve."
"Oh, Olga!" Luffy greeted. "You're okay!"
"Oh, cut the crap, will you?!" Olga cursed. "If it wasn't for me and your sister, you would've died by now! You would've drown, sunk, and then be reduced to a skeleton! Got that?!" She then gave Luffy her signature grin. "You should be thanking me, you dumbass!"
"Oh, I see," Luffy smiled before he bowed his head. "Thanks, Olga!"
"Thank you, Olga!" Aika answered as she hugged Olga, who tensed up before she grumbled in irritation.
"Thank you, too, Aika," Luffy said as he pet Aika on the head. "And you, Elizabeth!"
"You're welcome!" answered Elizabeth.
"Jeez," Olga muttered. "When you go thanking me like that, it makes sounds like an entitled bitch who wants something in return."
"So where are we, anyway?" Luffy asked.
"We're in the big fishy's tummy!" Aika answered.
"Really?" Luffy asked in surprise.
"That's right," Olga replied.
"Whoa, there's even an island in here!" Luffy pointed out. "It's huge!"
"Hmph," Olga scoffed. "It's probably one of the islands that Lord Bonburi swallowed."
"One of them?" Aika inquired.
"Lord Bonburi actually has three stomachs," Olga answered. "Right now, we're in the first stomach. If we go through the second stomach and enter the third, we'll find Alchemi, where the Pure Gold is located."
GRRRRRRWWWL~! Olga and Elizabeth both gasped upon hearing that sound.
"What was that?!" Olga asked.
"Shishishishi!" Aika giggled. "That's my Big Brother's tummy growling!"
Luffy grinned sheepishly as he rubbed his stomach, which was rumbling due to his hunger.
"Sorry," he said. "I guess I have been a little hungry for a while."
"I'm hungry, too," Aika added. "What about you, Olga?"
Grrrrrmmmbgh! Olga squeaked in surprise as she heard her stomach growling, as well, causing the D. Siblings.
"Maybe we'll find something to eat around here if we look around," Luffy said as he and the girls began to walk along the shore...unaware that they were being followed. "By the way, we may be in this thing's tummy, but it sure is bright down here."
"Yeah, how come there's light shining down here?" asked Aika.
"It's because of Lord Bonburi's lantern," Olga answered. "The light's so strong, that it goes through his body, and even shines inside his belly. That's why it's so bright in here, all the time."
"Wow," Luffy said. "You sure know a lot about this fish, Olga!"
"Well, that's because-" Olga started, only to be interrupted by a sudden shriek coming from Aika.
"B-b-behind you!" she cried, and as Luffy and Olga turned around, they gasped upon seeing a giant T-Rex, charging right toward them with a hungry roar, and not long after, more of them appeared!
"We're surrounded!" Elizabeth shouted.
"Crap!" Olga cursed. "At this rate, we'll be eaten!"
"Heh!" Luffy smirked, completely unafraid. Soon, one of the T-Rexes lunged at him, preparing to devour him whole, but he soon leapt out of the way, thanks to his Observation Haki, and jumped up into the air! "Now Gum-Gum...PISTOL!"
POW! With a mighty punch, Luffy soon felled the giant reptile, much to the shock of Olga, Elizabeth, and the other T-Rexes.
"WHOO-HOO!" Aika cheered. "Way to go, Big Brother!"
Frightened by Luffy's display of physical prowess, the dinosaurs quickly turned and fled, not wanting to end up like their friend. As soon as they left, Olga seemed to gasp in delight before she shouted with glee.
"Yes! At last!" she cheered as she ran to Luffy's side. "Way to go, Straw Hat guy!"
"Shishishishi!" Luffy laughed.
"Isn't Big Brother amazing?" Aika asked.
"Yeah, he is!" answered Olga. "Now...finally...finally…!"
"Huh?" Luffy muttered in confusion. "What's the matter? You got some kind of grudge against them?"
"Finally...I GET TO EAT IT~!" Olga exclaimed, happily.
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After a while, Luffy, Aika, Olga,and Elizabeth sat around a bonfire, having eaten their fill of dinosaur meat.
"Ahhh…" Olga sighed as she patted her rounded belly. "I'm stuffed...finally, my dream that I've had for more than 200 years has come true."
"200 years?!" repeated Luffy, who was twice as bloated as Olga from eating so much.
"You're 200 years old?!" asked Aika, who is in her Wolf Form as she lied on her older half-brother's stomach.
"That's right," Olga smirked as she rubbed her paunch. "See, for the past 200 years, I've lived off the fish that Lord Bonburi swallowed and the fruits that grow in the jungle. It's always been my dream to eat as much meat as I wanted."
"Whoa…!" Luffy whispered, his stomach having slimmed down a bit, but still quite large. "I wonder if you're my sister, since I like meat, too."
"Hey!" Aika exclaimed in offense.
"Oh! N-no offense, Aika!" Luffy refutes. "Anyway, Olga, if you're over 200 years old, that makes you an old granny, doesn't it?!"
"What?!" Olga questioned as she stood up, having returned to her regular frame as she pointed her joint of meat at the Straw Hat Captain. "If I'm a granny, then that makes you and Aika a couple of old codgers! Aika looks about as old as I am, but you look older than me!"
"I'm only 19 years old," Luffy spoke up. "Aika's 6."
"Eh?!" Olga gasped before she smiled. "That means you're both younger than I am, aren't you?"
"You see you're more than 200 years old," Aika said, "but you look like you're my age. Why is that?"
"Yeah! You're like the old lady that Chopper used to live with!" Luffy added. "She's more than 100 years old!"
"...Well...where do I start from?" Olga asked before she looked up at the ceiling. "200 years ago, I was swallowed up by Lord Bonburi. I used to live on the Island of Metals, Alchemi, with my parents…but thanks to my crappy Father, who was a crappy scientist who made the Pure Gold…everything went wrong."
Aika blinked at Olga in concern while Luffy just stared at her blankly.
"Pirates came to the island in the search of the Pure Gold," Olga began, "and in their search for it...my Mother was killed. I blamed my crappy Father that everything that happened to us…I was so angry, I was about to throw the ring of Pure Gold he gave me into the sea…but when I did, Lord Bonburi appeared and swallowed up half the island…along with me."
"So...where's your daddy?" Aika asked, now sitting on the ground next to Luffy, who had slimmed back down to his regular figure.
"Yeah, what happened to him?" asked Luffy.
"Who cares about him?" Olga answered with a callous tone. "He probably got eaten alive and died…serves the bastard right. I'm the last survivor of Alchemi…and since then, I've been living here in Lord Bonburi's stomach, all alone."
"I see," Luffy said. "You've been through a lot on your own, haven't you?"
"Psh!" Olga scoffed. "Please…you think I want your pity? It's actually pretty nice, living down here! But…I accidentally got out a while ago, and while I was messing around outside, I got caught by this old guy in a mask and his Marine buddies."
"So that means you know how to get outta here, don't you?" Luffy asked.
"Of course I do!" answered Olga. "So, if you wanna find your friends and get the Pure Gold, that means you have no choice but to listen to me!"
"Okay!" Luffy and Aika exclaimed as they both stood up, the former holding out his hand to the blonde-haired girl.
"Thanks, Olga!" Luffy said.
"Yeah, thanks!" Aika added.
"…Hmph!" Olga scoffed. "Fine...leave it to me, then."
On that, she and Luffy shook hands…but then, all of a sudden, a giant metal claw seemed to appear out of nowhere, snaking towards Luffy and Aika, the former growling as his eyes flashed red with Observation Haki before he quickly struck it away. Soon after, who else should appear but Mad Treasure and Anubis?
"JARARARARARA~!" he laughed. "Olga, there you are! I was so worried that you had died! Now then…you're gonna guide me to the Pure Gold…right now!"
"Forget it!" Luffy barked. "We decided that Olga's going on an adventure with us!"
"Yeah! Go ask somebody else, you big bully!" Aika asked before she blew a raspberry at the treasure hunter.
"Fine by me," Treasure grinned. "After all…the best part of a treasure hunt…IS ROBBING SOMEONE OF THEIRS!"
On that, Luffy and Treasure charged at each other, preparing to engage in battle. As they did, Anubis glanced over at Aika, who gasped as she noticed him. The striped hyena then licked his lips hungrily before letting out a cackling sound.
"Looks like I just found my lunch…!" he hissed as he charged at the Honshu Wolf Girl, who gasped silently, but then growled as she stood her ground.
"Bring it on, Hyena Breath!" she shouted as she charged back at him, to Olga's surprise.
The fight had just begun.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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