Ellix's "So Dazzling! Am I Dreaming?" 1: Crash Land on Colour Carnival!

Cover Page: Straw-Hats and Animals: Ellix and a giant snail are playing cards. Ellix is looking at the snails cards as it has no hands to hold them with, while the snail looks at Ellix's cards over his shoulder using it's stalk eyes.

I flew for three days and three nights.

And let me tell you...it was frikkin boring.

Seriously! All I could do was twiddle my thumbs, call for the others, settle my growling stomach and of course sleep.

I spent at least half the journey sleeping and dreaming. My nakama were always there, still smiling, playing, laughing, dancing.

But the worst thing about dreams is that you have to wake up eventually.

The only thing I had left of all of my nakama was the wristband that Nami had given me. I kept it constantly close to my chest, for fear that it flew away in the rushing wind.

I suppose I had taken comfort in the fact that I knew they were not dead, just flying like me. But that didn't bring them back.

After the three days and nights I finally crashed at the beginning of a new morning. Unfortunately I was asleep at the time and woke up with a start.

"Woah! Woah! Woah! Woah!" I shouted as I was thrown in the air from the impact and landed back in the new crater.

It took me a few minutes to actually register that no gale force air was rushing past me as my innards adjusted to the non-moving atmosphere before standing up.

I looked back at the crater to see it was in a paw-print shape. Now that I thought about it, how the heck did I survive that impact?

"Hey dude! Are you okay!?"

I jumped at the voice, the first I'd heard in three days. The new voice belonged to a man dressed in...what the? A sparkly purple suit with a matching top hat and trousers wearing star sunglasses?

"Uhhh..." I just gaped before I got over the shock of the weird clothing. "Y-Yeah, I'm fine, don't worry, Devil Fruit powers."

"Okay...I guess." I said. "Sure you're alright?"

"Uh-huh. Hey, can you tell me where...I...aaaaaam?" My jaw dropped.

I had happened to glance up to my surroundings. Let me just say that this place had COLOUR! And a lot of it! The rising sun made the vibrant colour scheme's shine and sparkle. There were loads of giant rides like roller coasters and Ferris wheels and a large tower like structure at the back. It looked like it was split into several sections, each unique, one looked kinda like a graveyard while another was a water slide park! I guess I was at the entrance as there were loads of different stalls selling various goods, and people were EVERYWHERE.

"Why, you're in Colour Carnival! A paradise for pirates!" Sparkles exclaimed.

'Paradise for pirates, huh?' I thought grimly. 'Now where have I heard THAT before?'

Flashback

"Omatsuri Island?" I muttered hesitantly. "Sounds kinda fishy to me."

"For once I agree with the shitty Rokushiki." Sanji said as he took a long drag of his cigarette.

"I personally vote for a break." Nami said, glaring daggers at us.

"Of course Nami-swaaaaan!" Sanji cooed as I face-palmed.

"It looks kinda fun!" Chopper cheered.

"I dunno. My Don't-go-to-the-suspicious-island disease is acting up again." Usopp whimpered.

Zoro was snoozing and therefore could not voice an opinion.

"Hey Luffy! What do you think?" I asked my captain as I turned to see him sitting cross-legged on the figurehead. "Luffy?"

He stood up. "Even if it is dangerous, let's go there anyway!" He flashed us his trademark grin. "We'll have an adventure!"

Flashback End

I violently shook my head.

None of those memories. Not one.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Sparkly questioned, noticing I had drifted off into my own thoughts.

"Sorry, sorry." I reassured him, being stopped by the loud grumbling of my gut. "But can I get something to eat?"

"Do you have any berri?"

"Nope, my girlfriend takes all I own."

"Ah, I see, let's see if I can help you out."

xxxSummitxWarxxx

I finished off the fifth chicken leg and continued to walk past all the stalls. Different types of pirates were walking all over the place and heading off to the different attractions, I only had one thing on my mind though.

'Alright, now that I'm 1/50th full, I need to find a boat to sail back to Sabaody Archipelago.' I decided in my head. 'My nakama must be waiting for me there.'

I noticed an average crowd had gathered around a man who had the same attire as the first person I met, except his was yellow. I had learned that these guys were the staff of the carnival. I listened in on the conversation as he was explaining the history of the place.

"Just five years ago, this whole island was nothing more then a simple little mass of land." The staff member spoke while making wild hand gestures to emphasize his point. "But that all changed when the Jester Pirates showed up! Yes-siree the large crew went back and forth to deliver building materials to this island and make a dream carnival! And thus Colour Carnival was born! All of us staff members are still nakama of the Jester pirates you see, I helped build the roller coaster! And our glorious captain is the leader of this carnival, and resides in yonder tower!"

He swept his arm up to the giant building that was pretty hard to miss, covered in loads of colourful pictures that I couldn't make out from this distance.

"Now then, any questions?" The speaker asked.

I raised my hand as if I was in a school.

"Ah yes! Good sir at the back!"

I crossed my arms. "How do people actually find this place? Where is it exactly and how come Marines don't come here?"

"Oh ho! Three questions at once! How marvelous, sir! But shouldn't you already know one of those answers?"

I rubbed the back of my head nervously. "I need a reminder."

"Of course, sir! Of course!" He spun around before stopping in a balanced pose. "To answer your second question, Colour Carnival resides in the Grand Line!"

'Great, I've gone BACK.' I complained in my head as my answerer held another pose.

"To answer your first question. Our crew has many skilled crafters capable of making Log Poses to Colour Carnival!" He spun and struck one more pose. "As for your third. I believe Marines have a tiny bit of trouble finding our carnival due to the loss of a small amount of our money every month."

'Bribery again.' I sighed in my head.

"Any other questions, sir?"

"No thanks, I'm good."

"Then thank you for listening! You've been such a wonderful audience!" And with that the small crowd dispersed.

xxxSummitxWarxxx

Turned out finding a boat was gonna be a lot harder then I thought. All of the pirates came in their own ships, and even if I could sneak onto one there's only around a 1/100th chance they're heading to Sabaody Archipelago. I was pretty stumped.

Suddenly my stomach roared again. "Come on! Can you stay not hungry for a second please?" My stomach did not. Those measly chicken wings and water had nowhere near filled me up. And as stated before, I currently have no berri.

I went and sat against one of the stalls and tried to think of a way out. I could hijack a ship, but what do I know about actually sailing one myself? I could try stealing one...no, Colour Carnival had these hi-tech 'Ship Locks' that prevented other pirates from stealing better ships. Maybe if-

Growl!

"Oh shut up! Please!" I nearly begged as I clutched my lower-upper body.

"Excuse me? Are you okay?"

I looked up expecting to see another staff member, but instead I was met with the face of a young woman.

She looked about 14, and had long light brown hair, with green eyes. She wore a white shirt with spiralling rose patterns and jeans, actually, I couldn't tell what material they were made out of. Weird. Anyway, she had a good hourglass figure and large breasts, and was a bit shorter then me from where I could tell.

"S-Sorry!" She said frantically, suddenly jumping back and waving her hands. "I-It's just you were sitting here all by yourself a-and I was pretty worried!"

I stood up and dusted myself off. "I'm fine, I promise. Just a bit-"

Growl!

"...Hungry."

She began taking an interest in her own feet. "W-Well I suppose I could help you with that, b-but only if you wanted to of course! B-But if you don't then you could...um...errrrr." She began turning red with embarrassment.

"You can help me get some more food?" I asked hopefully.

"Y-Yes! Oh b-but not just me! I have friends who...ummmm...oh dear. Can you please just come with me?" She bowed and held out her hand.

I smiled and took it. "Of course! Thanks! I'm Ellix by the way."

She looked up. "Oh dear! I never told you my name! I'm Sarah!" My new acquaintance then began pulling me along.

We eventually came to a makeshift alleyway between two stalls, where two men looked like they were waiting for us.

The older one wore a brown leather jacket over a plain dark blue shirt, and a red sash was tied across his chest, from his left shoulder to the bottom right of his upper body. He had shaggy red hair and piercing dark blue eyes, unlike my soft light blue ones. And he was very 'lean and mean' and held himself high.

The second guy looked younger, but I guessed he was still older then me. He wore a green shirt with long sleeves that went past his hands, and had a smile on his face unlike his companion. His Sanji-like blond hair was combed back apart from three stubborn strands that stood out at the front, and had plain brown eyes. And on his back was...was...

"Sarah!" Red-head yelled. "Are you okay? You didn't go too far did you?"

"N-No! I promise!" She pushed me forward. "Here! I've got someone else who's willing to help!"

He bent down and looked me up and down. "Huh...you look pretty familiar."

"I suppose you could say that." I said in response. I didn't really want anybody here to know I was part of the Straw-Hats, that would just make escaping even more difficult. However I wasn't interested in him as I kept glancing back at Blond guy.

Said person looked confused at my staring. "Is thereeee somethingonmyface?"

I was kinda taken aback by his sudden increase in speed speech, but quickly recovered. "I'm sorry but...is that a SQUID stuck to your back?"

He turned around and showed it off. It was definitely a light blue squid, stuck to his back using two of its tentacles. It looked at me with wide innocent eyes, as far as I could tell, it wasn't very old.

"What, you mean Kalamar?" The squids owner asked. "Yep, he's been my travelling companion ever since I found him lost from his school."

'Reminds me of Laboon' I thought as the squid waved at me with one of it's tentacles and I waved back...wait, the squid just waved at me?

"Allow us to introduce ourselves." Red said as the two lined up and bowed. "My name is Tack, nice to meet you."

"And I'm Roy, of course you've already met Kalamar." Once the two were finished they stood up.

"Good to meet the two of you too! I'm...Ellix." I said hesitantly now that Sarah knew.

"Ellix, huh? That name sounds REAL familiar." Tack thought aloud.

"Yeah, it gets around." I brushed off quickly. "Sarah said you can help me get some food?"

"What!? I-I didn't-oh, oh wait I-I did." Sarah mumbled in guilt.

"Ahhh. Wanna join our little scheme? I reckon we'll have enough with four." Tack confirmed.

"Yeah! Nowwe'reallgoodtogo!" Roy exclaimed as Kalamar waved two of it's tentacles in joy.

"Don't mind them, they get excited easily." Tack said. "Want us to run through our plans?"

"That would be helpful." I agreed.

Tack nodded and gestured Roy and Sarah over. We stood in a cricle as Tack unrolled a map of Colour Carnival, promptly ghrabbing a stick and using it as a pointer.

"Okay. So as we all know Colour Carnival is divided into different 'Zones', each with a different theme. It makes for easy navigation." Tack explained.

'I didn't know that.' I thought, but let him continue.

"Now the one we want is here." He used his stick to point to an area not to far from the stalls. "The Food Zone. Where all of the Colour Carnivals food is stored in a giant refrigerator."

"I don't like the idea of eating frozen food." I grimaced.

"Ah haaaa!" Tack said knowingly, tapping the stick against the side of his head. "But my friend, we are aiming for the second half of the Food Zone, the cooked half! Every day food is taken, cooked, and then stored again in a neutral environment. That is where we're aiming for. In order to get there however, we must go through the frozen half first, security's too high to let us go straight through to the second half."

Roy then took over, Kalamar relieving Tack of the stick and using it to point for it's carrier. That is one SMART squid! "I discovered a ventilation shaft at the top of the Food Zone, to control temperatures and make sure all the food doesn't become ice-cubes. It's pretty narrow, but we should all be able to fit."

Tack re-folded the paper while Kalamar threw the stick away. "If we get in successfully, we'll have enough food to last us half a year at least." Tack said.

'Not if you have my captain.' I thought glumly, holding onto my wristband.

"So Ellix, you in?" Tack asked.

"Please Ellix?" Sarah asked.

"We'll all be in it together!" Roy pushed as Kalamar bubbled in agreement.

I crossed my arms and thought. These guys didn't seem so bad, and I was pretty hungry. Hey, maybe with their help I could find a way back to the Archipelago. They must have used a ship to get here. Okay! It was decided.

"I'm in!" I said as the three (sorry, four) cheered.

"Welcome on board!" They all cried, patting my back and dancing around.

I just hoped I got back to my nakama soon.

xxxSummitxWarxxx

And so here it is! My first OA, the Colour Carnival Arc! Ellix has got some new friends but what exactly will happen here? How does Ellix remember Omatsuri Island? So many questions, so little answers...

To TheRealEvanSG, Great! I'm glad you enjoyed that chapter! I had a lot of fun writing it, as I did with this one!

Thank you for reading! Nakama! Sarah, Tack, Roy and Kalamar belong to me.