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Time on the Sea
Chapter Sixteen
Last time: I follow Luffy down an alley, and we lose the marines. "Which way?" he asks
"um… left" we turn left and emerge on the main road, it's deserted. The marines elsewhere.
As we continue are run, we come across a man in our way.
The man in question has what looks like a motorbike at his side. As we near the man, I note through the crazy rain and wind that he has short white hair and wears a white marine jacket, multiple cigars in his mouth and attached throughout his jacket, also a stick like thing attached to his back with a handle "So you've come, Straw Hat Luffy…" he states calmly through the rain, loud enough for us to hear. "You!" Luffy recognises him. I ignore him and keep running, "no time to play with a marine Luffy!"
"The name's Smoker!" said Marine puffs out some cigar smoke. "I'm a Captain of the Marines here." I see smoke start spewing from his arms, and I gasp "Dude! You're on fire…. In the rain….wait…" I stop in my tracks, he can't be on fire….then his arms burst into huge thick smoke. He yells "I won't let you set sail!" as the smoke sails at high speeds towards us. I smirk as Luffy and I dodge to opposite sides, I slide across the slippery ground, and look up to see the smoke has caught Luffy, raising him off the ground. "Oi! No fair!" I scream at the Marine, as Luffy struggles "Smoke can't grab stuff…." then it clicks, it's a devil fruit! He's a logia user, dropping my bags for a minute; I charge at Smoker while he's busy with Luffy and charge/kick him at the gut well that didn't work out. My feet and legs just flow through him, stopping at my waist right at the chain. With no time to think Luffy yells my name and throws a punch at Smoker's head his arm stretching and wobbling from the high winds It goes through Smoker and he disappears in a huge cloud, effectively dropping me to the ground with a grunt and a bit of a shock, head hits the pavement and I look back to see Smoker's smoke grab Luffy's head "Are you really worth 30 million beli?" he growls, and making his body solid again he smashes Luffy face first into the ground keeping him there by sitting on his back, holding his face into the stone with one hand.
"Hey!" I catch his attention as he goes for the weapon on his back. I stand, soaked from the rain, cold and pull my chain and weight out for round two. "Get off of Luffy!" with a couple of running steps forward, in a blur I swing my weight ball it connects with Smoker's head faster than he can blink knocking him out cold. I scoff as his eyes roll back into his head, and he collapses face first on top of Luffy. "I did it!" I cry out doing a little dance/jump "I love this weapon!" I pull it back and is about to secure it on my waist when another man in a black cloak catches my eye. He stands over Smoker and Luffy, a red tribal tattoo takes up the left side of his face, the rest covered by the cloak, he smirks, as his eyes meet mine, I'm weary "Who-" I'm cut off when he says "Melody, right? My son is lucky to have you, but be weary. Harder times are in the future…"
Confused, I shake my head and look back but the guy is gone. Who was that…? Was he a weirdo…? Intruding on my thoughts is a bunch of Marine Soldiers flying through the air from a side street, followed by Zoro and Sanji. "Come on, run or we'll be trapped on this Island!" Zoro calls, "There's a huge ass storm coming!" the two run past; Zoro grabs Luffy in the processes. I catch up with them, grabbing my fallen bags as well.
We make it to Merry in great time, without any more trouble from the Marines. Usopp helps the four of us onto the ship, as it takes off from the dock, the winds and rough waves too much for it to keep still any longer.
Soaked and most of us panting (not me) we collapse onto the deck.
"Woo~ that was fun!" Luffy laughs. I grumble and smack him on the head.
"You still had me worried you idiot!"
Luffy just laughs, then Nami appears at the railing "What do you think you're doing? Get in your positions, this storm is huge!" She growls.
Zoro grumbles while Sanji swoons with hearts in his eyes as they do their duties, while Luffy, Usopp and I snap to alert. Zoro and I climb up the mast and let the sail go while Luffy and Usopp have the job of securing everything in the rooms and storage. Including the items bought witch they just put in the girl's room. Sanji has control of the helm guiding the ship to Nami's orders. The ship settles into a sailing rhythm in the storm towards the Grand Line just minutes after leaving the island. Out on the deck we all see a light from a lighthouse "Just beyond that light is the entrance to the Grand Line" Nami explains as our jobs finish up, we all admire it for a few seconds, while the rain continues to pour. "D-don't you guys think entering the Grand Line in this storm is a bit…." Usopp is cowering.
"Man up Usopp this adds to the adventure." I pat him on the back.
On the middle of the deck, Sanji sets a large Keg. "We've reached the Grand line so this calls for a celebration!
We circle around the barrel as Sanji raises his foot on top of it "To find All Blue." He smiles.
Luffy's next "To become the Pirate King!"
I'm going to be beside Luffy the entire time, I'm someone else than I was before. I'm better; I'm the queen "To be the Pirate Queen!" I laugh, just our luck to enter our adventure like this.
Zoro "To be the greatest swordsman" he adds his foot on the barrel.
"To draw a map of the world" Nami smiles her sandal tapping the lid.
Usopp's next "T… t-to become a brave warrior of the seas!" he states proudly
Seeing determination in our eyes and a look at Luffy's reassuring grin, us, the future pirate king's crew
silently promise, we will do everything in our power and join Luffy at the top, guiding him, and being his
support.
With a large crunch I raise my leg along with my crew mates and we destroy the keg, spilling beer everywhere "OFF TO THE GRAND LINE!"
"NAMI~!" Luffy yells from his spot on Merry's head "The light went out!"
"Luffy, we've passed the Lighthouse, of course it's gone out, now call everyone"
"Kay~"
I join Luffy on his tiny gathering hunt, and had gathered everyone in the kitchen, all of use soaked one way or another. "The entrance to the Grand line is a mountain." Nami slams a map on the table.
Zoro sighs, with a hand on his head. Sanji ends up dropping his cigarette from his mouth and rushes to put it out and lights another one at the same time. Usopp on the other hand freaks out "A mountain!"
"Yep, the map and the guiding line both point at Reverse Mountain right on the Redline."
"So…." I think out loud, "We crash through the mountain?"
"No, there's a waterway"
"That's crazy!" Usopp remarks.
Ok, the entrance is small, so I need Sanji at the helm, and the rest of you looking out, if we're even an inch off the speed of the current will smash us into the Redline… and we'll all die" Nami is directly blunt. This causes Usopp to break out in shivers, and promptly passes out. Zoro wakes him with a large smack on the face with one sword. Luffy stood and called me over from prodding Usopp's body with my foot. I stand beside him, and lean into the window watching the storming sea, and ignoring the cold and wetness that covered me.
"Mel… we're actually here!" he turns from the window to me, a large smile on his face. "Yeah…" I watch his face when it frowns "Nami… the storm is gone….is it a magic storm?"
"Your right…" I look out to the sunny, clear sky. I swear it was just dark and stormy a second ago.
We all file out of the cabin onto the deck; Nami rushes from railing to railing "That storm should have… led us to the… entrance…"
"I wonder what happened to the storm" asks Usopp. Luffy just laughs and takes his spot on Merry's head again.
"SHIT!" Nami screams from the back deck, "We've entered the Calm Belt!" I run to her side "What's that?" looking out I can see the storm but around us is purely clear and calm. "The storm's over there, but calm here…" Zoro muses
"DON'T JUST STAND AROUND!" Nami rages at the guys "grab the oars and row as fast as you can! We have to get back into the storm immediately!"
"As you wish Nami!" Sanji smiles
"Why do we want to go into the storm?" asks Usopp
Looking into the water I see a huge shadow a fin the size of Merry emerges from the water "Just shut up and do as she says!" I scream and run back to the main deck "t-t-there's something in the water!"
"We're in the Calm belt" Nami explains quickly "the Grand Line is surrounded by these two belts of windless calm oceans; we're stuck in one now!"
Looking back to the water I see more and more shadows. "Guys…."
Suddenly the ship starts shaking and going crazy "An earth quake?" Luffy wonders,
"We're on open seas you dumbo!" Usopp screams
Then Merry is lifted off of the water from something underneath us. I freeze and look out, huge sea monsters surround the ship, each a million times larger than the little Going Merry.
The looks of shock and craziness were all over the boys, Usopp starts foaming at the mouth and passes out not even a second later, Sanji nearly cried, Zoro couldn't speak, his eyes nearly popping out of his head while Luffy's mouth hit the deck "HOLY…. SH…"
While I openly cried, thinking of the swear words I could shout "Holy…. mighty… crab… balls!"
Nami hugged the mast "This is a den for Sea Kings…" she cried
The fish monsters merely looked around the smaller ones dove back under while the huge one stayed above. The three awake boys were quick, and had the oars faster than I could have gotten them "A…alright…." Zoro swallowed loudly, all three sweating. "As soon as this thing dives back down start rowing your arms off, got it?!"
"Aye Aye!"
I just slid to my knees beside Nami, as the large Sea King started to move, petrified I grabbed the mast with Nami as the monster sneezed, sending us flying.
One body talked as the thunder rolled and lighting lit up the dark sky of the storm. "Oh, thanks god… we're back in the storm…." Luffy huffed.
Everyone lies out on the deck, scared shitless after that. "Now… do you understand why we have to use the entrance?" asks Nami, into the wood deck.
"Yeah…." Zoro agrees "understood…"
Sanji was silent… until he cracked a laugh "Holy, might, crab, balls?"
I snicker "… don't judge me, I couldn't think of anything"
"I got it!" Nami sits up
"what, crab balls?" Luffy asks, a smile on his face.
"NO!" how we're gonna climb the mountain, its sea currents, from each of the four seas all heading towards the mountain, it goes up."
"That makes sense" Sanji prods Usopp who's still out cold.
"At the very top, the currents combine and come out to the Grand Line!" Nami stands up "If we fail the entry way… we'll crash and get dragged to the bottom of the sea…"
"So it's a magic mountain!" Luffy smiles understandingly.
Nami just sighs. "Yea…"
"I've heard a bit." Sanji stands as well,
"About the mountain?" asks Zoro, who crosses his arms "No, about the Grand Line… supposedly half of the people die just trying to get in, entering isn't going to be easy"
"I see the magic mountain!" Luffy grips the railing
"Really! Wow~! It's huge!" I smile.
"So that's the Red Line?"
"I can't even see the top because of the clouds!" Usopp exclaims
"Get the rudder!" Luffy orders to Sanji and Usopp who run to it in the cabin.
"Amazing…" Nami stares out at the large rock wall in front of us, the entrance just getting into our sight.
"It's the entrance to the water way!"
"The ocean is… really going up the mountain…" Nami is shocked.
The entrance is amazing; I have no words for it other than it's a river up a mountain, with entrance gates at the beginning
"We're of course; go a little to the right!" Luffy orders, I notice it too by his side at the front.
Looking back Usopp and Sanji pull and push the rudder, but it snaps, clean in half.
Luffy's eyes pop out of his head while Zoro and I sweat drop and Nami screams. The ship nears the first entrance gate. "We're gonna crash!" I scream. Luffy tosses his hat; I grab it "Gomu Gomu…." He jumps in front of the ship, "Balloon!" Luffy inflates, and is caught between the ship and the gate. Merry bounces off right into the middle of the water way.
"Luffy!" I rush to the side railing my arm out for him.
"We're saved!" Nami relaxes with a huge smile.
Luffy's stretched hand grabs mine, Zoro comes up behind me and grabs his arm; together we tug Luffy onto the deck as Merry swiftly climbs the mountain.
"We did it!" we all scream.
I laugh, letting the nerves out just watching Luffy's confident smile. I notice the rain has stopped; Nami sheds her rain coat and lets it flap in the strong wind. I plop Luffy's hat on his head. And shockingly Luffy pulls me in for a quick kiss "We're closer than ever Mel."
I blush, my smile just got larger.
Gripping his hat and his spot on Merry's figurehead Luffy laughs himself silly I stand beside him, gripping the railing, Zoro to his other side and Nami on mine. It takes only seconds to reach the top.
"This is crazy!" Usopp yells over the wind from his spot with Sanji on the mast by the sail "It comes with being a pirate" I yell back. We clear the cloud cover, reaching the tip, the ships in the air for a few seconds where we can see the sea beyond "I can see the Grand Line!" Luffy look over the clouds
"All we have to do is go down." Nami explains, then…. The ship drops.
It's a very, very uncomfortable feeling when you're falling through the air. Luffy is gripping Merry's head to keep himself on the ship while everyone else held onto whatever they could, the railing, the mast, a doorframe. "AH!" I scream as my stomach lift up in my body.
The something grabs on to my arm, "Luffy?" he hold me close, pulling me beside him as the decent begins. "HOLD ON!" he yells through the rushing water. I oblige and wrap onto him.
"BUOOOOH~!"
"What was that?" asks Zoro.
"Who cares WOOHOO!" Luffy scream
"Probably the wind"
"BUOOOHH~!" it comes again.
"Nami! There's a mountain ahead!" Sanji yells down from his spot.
"BUOOOHH~!"
"It's a mountain?" she screams "HOW CAN THERE BE A MOUNTAIN?! IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE OPEN WATER FROM HERE!"
"It's no mountain!" Usopp shrieks "IT'S A WHALE!" and almost on cue as the loud roaring sound nearly made us all go deaf came from the large thing as we get closer. "BUOOOHH!"
"WAHHH~!" we all scream.
"Turn portside!" Zoro orders, pointing to a small gap between the Red Line and the huge whale, "But the rudder's broken!" Usopp cries
"I got a plan!" Luffy pushes me onto the deck, and rushes into the cabin, past Zoro, Usopp and Sanji trying the useless rudder "It won't move!" Sanji screams. I watch was the whale gets closer and closer.
BOOM!
The front cannon is shot
Everyone stops. Shocked at what Luffy did. I slide onto my butt beside Nami, Merry slowed down but didn't stop, we crash into the whale, and Merry's head cracked off, landing too close to the two of us. "Oh god… I almost died just now…" Nami shakes
"Th-that's… an understatement." I take a shaky breath.
"MY SPECIAL SEAT!" I hear Luffy cry from the cabin.
I turn back to the whale, to meet a huge eye ball, we all freeze as does the whale.
"N… now's our chance run for it!" Zoro yells, we all grab the oars and start paddling while Luffy is morning the broken Merry head. "What's with that thing, did it not feel that cannonball!?" Nami cries.
"Maybe it's just slow…" I shrug
"Who the hell cares!" Zoro barks at me. and rows faster.
"BOOHH!" THE Whale cries,
"Aghhhh!" we all scream
"My ears!" the whale's bellow is deafening.
"Row! Row as fast as you can!" Zoro orders
Silently Luffy walks to the side of the ship that faces the Whale's eye "How dare you destroy…." He pulls back his fist. "…my special seat!" His fist flies right into the eye ball.
"THAT IDIOT!" the rest of us scream all crying, Nami passes out.
The eye turns to us. "It… saw us!" I scream tears blear my vision but the eye is hard to miss.
"Come at me, you bastard!" Luffy gets into a fighting stance and immediately Usopp and Zoro pounce "Just shut the hell up already!" They kick Luffy in the head.
"Oof!" he goes flying onto the deck face first. I continue rowing; Luffy got that coming to him…
Then... the whale opens its mouth…..
"Oh, shit!"
Luffy goes flying off, as Merry is sucked into the monster's mouth. Its mouth shuts behind us, as we continue down into the darkness.
We could feel Merry moving through water, but the darkness is blinding. We can't see a hand in front of your own faces, and I had the luck to trip over Nami, who stayed on the ground and wacked my face on the deck, I didn't move and close my eyes waiting to be digested "what…" I could hear Zoro say, I looked up and could see, the sky… painted around us, lights hung around the cavern like place and island sat in front of Merry, a man sits in a lawn chair staring at us.
"I thought we were eaten?" I got up, confused and help Nami to her feet. "we were" she frowned, and examined the place.
"Hey old man!" Sanji yelled "Where are we?"
"Oi! We're talking to you!" Zoro snaps when the man doesn't reply
"You're inside the whale."
"WHAT?!" Usopp screams.
"That's one cool whale" I nod.
"DON'T BE IMPRESSED!" Nami raves and bonks me over the head.
Yay! We're in the grand line
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