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[Oro Jackson]
Jaune was staring out into the calm sky as once again, he began staring at the full moon. Even after so many years of being on the Grand Line, he still can't quite get over the fact that he's no longer in his original world, but in fact in another world where everything he thought made sense was useless on this very harsh ocean.
"Having tror sleeping Jaune?"asked Toki as she and Oden approached him.
"Lady Toki."said Jaune as he snapped his attention back to reality.
"Still homesick?"inquired Oden as Jaune just nodded his head.
"I'm just wondering how my family and friends back home are doing. It's been years, and sometimes, it feels like a dream, but I have the scars to prove that everything I remember is real."said Jaune as he touched the spot where Cinder stabbed him.
"Who knows why you were brought here, Jaune. Fate works in mysterious ways, like I would have never thought that leaving Wano would allow me to meet the love of my life."said Oden as he held Toki tighter.
"Oh you…"said Toki as she was blushing as Jaune was still amazed by how in love they were.
"Maybe they did bring me to the Grand Line for a reason, who's to say."Jaune said to himself as he wondered who above him sent him to this world that was much more dangerous than his old one.
"Where's Dogstorm and Cat Viper?"asked Oden as Jaune was usually accompanied by those two.
"They're fast asleep, and even if they weren't, they can't be out tonight on a full moon."responded his subordinate.
"Why not?"asked Toki as she was curious.
"Lady Toki, Minks not only surge electricity through their bodies through electro and are natural born warriors, they also have a secondary form known as Sulong. When Minks look at the full moon, they can take on a more powerful Sulong form, but unfortunately, without proper training, they would lose themselves to the power surging throughout their body. Minks without proper training could end up attacking friends and foe alike while in Sulong form. Dogstorm and Cat Viper are training to control their Sulokg forms, but they chose not to train during their time here on the Oro Jackson as they don't want to cause problems for Lord Oden."explained Jaune as Oden had barely gotten the trust of the Roger Pirates, so lasting his subordinates wanted was to cause trouble for him.
"You lot are way too serious."said Oden, since his subordinates were way too cautious.
"And you're way too reckless, Lord Oden."countered Jaune, to which Oden couldn't argue as his wife giggled at her husband's expense.
"I'm sure wherever my friends are that they're doing okay, after all before I met Lord Oden I was pathetically weak, so weak I was nothing more than a burden to them. I'm sure they have gotten stronger by now, and they're probably living their lives over there, so I have to do my best and live my life here."said Jaune, as he decided to call it a night and head back to his hammock.
"Try to enjoy your midnight stroll, but please do not take too long. Momonosuke and Hiyori get worried if you're gone for too long."said Jaune as Oden and Toki continued their stroll as he called it a night.
As Jaune entered the room the Roger Pirates provided for him, Dogstorm, and Cat Viper, he saw that both of Minks were sound asleep after going to town on some food. Dogstorm on a large porterhouse steak while Cat Viper had just finished a whole tray of lasagna.
Both were sound asleep with food all over their mouths as Jaune got into his hammock and began to wonder how exactly things will be different now that he has joined Oden to become part of the Roger Pirates?!
Would they find the final Island Roger desperately wants to find.
If they indeed found said Island, what exactly was on that island that made it so well hidden?
And why was it so difficult to find?
'All of these questions will be answered through time, I guess.' thought Jaune as he closed his eyes and tried his best to get some sleep as he knew he had a big day ahead.
[The next day]
As a new day as official members of the Roger Pirates began, the Roger Pirates decided to sing a sea shanty to welcome their new members and make them feel welcome and soon everyone got along with the tune, even though some of them didn't know the words by heart like the others
Yohohoho hohoho yohoho hohoho!
Gather up all of the crew!
Time to ship out Bink's Brew!
Sea winds blow to where, who knows!
The waves will be our guide!
Jaune and the others joined with the tune as it was catchy and fun to sing as a bunch of the Roger Pirates pulled out some instruments, and everyone on the crew got singing along!
O'er across the ocean tide, the sunset is goin wild, see the sky!
Birds singing in circles passy by!
The work on the Oro Jackson seemed to be easier and more fun as many were swabbing the deck and others were hoisting the mast as they sung along!
Bid farewell to weaver's town!
Say so long to port renowned!
Sing a song, it won't be long before we're casting off!
Gaban was steering the ship as the helmsman as several of the more important members of the Roger Pirates, including Roger himself, along with his first mate Rayleigh, were looking at a map of the Grand Line.
Soon everyone got on the main deck and began drinking as even Oden was having one heck of a time as he was already buddy buddy with the captain as they were drinking along with their arms over each other's shoulders!
Cross the gold and silver waves, changin' into water sprays!
Sailing out on our journey to the ends of the sea!
Oden meanwhile stopped drinking as he went over to Toki as the two of them went to sneak off to talk alone.
"I like this ship."said Oden as the Oro Jackson wasn't only a good ship, but his new crewmates were great people to get along with in his opinion.
"Me too."said Toki as she enjoy the Roger Pirate's company.
"I want to travel like this forever."said Oden, who felt like with the love of his life Toki and his dream of freedom by his side, he could do anything.
"Yes, as long as time allows…"said Toki in agreement as she felt that as long as Oden was by her side, she felt like her life was complete.
'Kin'emon and the others are probably struggling taking care of Kuri, but there's no way I'm going to convince that stubborn samurai to stop traveling, as the only person he'll probably listen to is right beside him and she sees no need to go to Wano anytime in the near future either.' thought Jaune, as Oden would definitely only listen to Toki, but there is no way she wants to go to Wano anytime soon as she is currently happy where she is at.
In the end, that's all that matters to Jaune, his Lord and Lady's happiness.
"Do it now!"said Roger, causing Jaune, Oden, and Toki to turn around to see Crocus injecting Roger with a needle.
"Hmm? Captain, did you catch a cold?"asked Oden as he wondered why Roger was getting an injection.
'I'm more surprised that needle actually penetrated skin as tough as his. Man took a point blank shot from a flintlock pistol the other day, and it barely even grazed him…' thought Jaune as Crocus must be an amazing doctor to be able to get through Roger's skin.
"Yeah, but it's nothing."said Roger with a smile as he lowered his sleeve.
"Is is something, you fool!"said Crocus as he looked at Oden and the others.
"He's only got a year to live at most!"said Crocus, shocking everyone.
"What?!"said Oden with shock.
"Captain, how are you still moving with a disease that will kill you within a year?!"asked Jaune as any other person would have been lying in bed under constant agony.
Roger just laughed at Jaune's question.
"I'm living life at top speed."answered Roger as no life-threatening disease was going to stop him from enjoying his life until the very end!
'Man will probably outlive the date Crocus, but I wonder how much longer he'll be able to fight it off?' thought Jaune, as his new captain was certainly crazier than the old one.
At that very moment, Whitebeard sneezed and began scratching his nose as he wondered if someone was talking about him.
…
One another day, the Log Pose that the crew used for navigating was pointing to the sky…?!
"The Log Pose is pointing at the sky… is it broken?"asked Oden as he wondered why it was pointing to the sky.
"It's not…" Let's go. "said Roger as he stood up.
"Go where?"asked Oden, as Jaune wondered as well what Roger meant.
"To the sky!"answered Roger as he pointed to the sky.
A few hours later the Oro Jackson sailed to a certain spot of the ocean as the clouds in the sky started to form and at the center was a big dark mass that sort of looked like a hole in the sky, and the Oro Jackson was directly under it!
"I have a bad feeling about this."said Jaune as he decided to hang on to any sturdy part of the ship he could find.
"It's coming…" The Knock Up Stream!"exclaimed Roger with anticipation as a giant geyser water launched fhe Oro Jackson into the sky!
The Oro Jackson was writing the stream of water, as Buggy was crying like a baby while holding on to one of the maste while screaming that he was going to die as Oden lost his balance and began rolling around the floor until he hit a nearby wall. Soon, musch to Jaune and everyone else's confusion there was a road made entirely of cloud that was taking the Oro Jackson higher into the sky!
"I really shouldn't be surprised by what's on this ocean at this point!"screamed Jaune as the laws of physics didn't mean anything on the Grand Line!
Soon everyone had to shield their eyes from the sudden bright light, but as soon as they open their eyes they were in for a big shock as much to their surprise there was an island in the sky!
"So that's…"began Buggy, but he couldn't finish his sentence as everyone viewed the island in the sky that appeared to be inhabited based on the building structures and giant green vines.
"The Sky Island!"finished Jaune, as never in his wildest dreams would he have expected an entire island to be floating in the sky.
"Welcome, all the way from the blue sea."said an Old Man named Gran Fall who, based on his expensive looking robes, seemed to be the leader of the sky people.
Soon his Entourage including a giant weird looking bird started greeting the Roger Pirates as everyone minus Roger had extremely shocked expressions on their faces as they never imagined that in a world that was so big, that there was still such more to find!
Soon, Oden tried writing a waver, a mini transport sky boat, but ended up having an epic wipeout as he crashed into a cloud and landed in said cloud.
"It takes at least ten years to handle a waver."said one of the sky people as they saw the wipeout.
A short while later Oden, Jaune, Shanks, and Buggy were moving through a large jungle with extremely large trees that heard from the sky people that the jungle Island actually used to be part of the ocean below before the Knock Up Stream sent it here to Skypiea, the name of the island they were currently at.
As they we're exploring a giant blue snake came out of nowhere and started chasing them as Oden told them all to run!
Jaune knew that Oden could could have very likely easily destroyed the beast, but he most likely chose to run instead as he didn't know if the creature was important to the sky people or not.
Soon, Jaune and the rest of the Roger Pirates were in for another surprises they found a ruined city made entirely out of solid gold in the middle of the jungle!
"So this is the City of Gold, Shandora."said Roger as he can't believe that the stories of the City of Gold were actually true!
"Wow!"said the cabin boys with amazement.
Oden meanwhile found a Poneglyph in Shandora, so he went over to inspect it.
"Hold are true motivation in our hearts and speak not of it. We are the ones who weave history… with the sounding of the grand belfry."said Oden out loud as he translated what was written on the Poneglyph.
"I wonder what that means?"wondered Jaune as he knew that belfryment bell, but what bell was it talking about?
"The grand belfry?"wondered Shanks as he began wondering if there was a giant bell somewhere around here.
"I found it!"yelled one of the Roger Pirates, as they found the belfry.
"This is where it was?!"set another member of the Roger Pirates as they found it on a higher cloud, as the belfry was moved thanks to a giant vine that moved said belfry on a higher cloud.
The Roger Pirates climbed the giant vine, and there before then was a giant bell made entirely of solid gold!
Oden couldn't believe what he was seeing as it was truly a magnificent sight!
"This must be Shandora's grand belfry!"said Shanks as he couldn't believe what he was seeing as he always thought it was just a story made up by some liar who lived hundreds of years ago.
"It's pure gold! Captain, how should we take it?"asked Buggy as his greedy nature knew no bounds.
That was one of the reasons he was stuck with his devil fruit power in the first place!
"I don't have time. Once you become a Captain, come get it yourself, Buggy."said Roger. As to him, the gold didn't matter.
'I doubt that would happen as he's pathetically weak.' thought Jaune as although it wasn't spoken among everyone else, it was pretty much unilaterally accepted that among the crew that Buggy was the black sheep as he was the weakest crew member thanks to his overconfidence and cowardly nature.
"What?! At least a piece of it now!"argued Buggy, as he wasn't sure if the next time he came back, the gold belfry would even be there.
"Be quiet! Captain says we're not taking it, so we're not taking it!"scolded Jaune as he struck Buggy on the head!
"OWWW! Jaune, you jerk! What was that for?!"asked Buggy as Jaune hit him again!
"Shut up!"said Jaune.
"This stone is easy to find since it has a strong voice inside. It's talking about a great power, isn't it?"said Roger as he could hear the voice of all things.
Oden meant to notice the Poneglyph in the middle of the belfry, so he walked over to inspect it.
"The writing is about an ancient weapon named Poseidon."answered Oden to Roger's question.
"I see… Oden, you can write a script, right?"asked Roger.
"Yes, of course."answered Oden as the method to write on the instructable material the Poneglyphs are made of has been passed down through the Kozuki family for generations!
"Then carve this message."instructed Roger as Jaune gave Oden a hammer and a special chisel.
Oden began chiseling the words as Roger was saying them out loud as he couldn't believe that someone who was near the end of his life was living so far to the fullest, Oden was determined to see Roger's journey until the very end.
"Mm-hm, it's perfect, Oden."said Roger as Oden carved the message from the Roger Pirates in the language of the Poneglyph near the original Poneglyph for anyone who knew the read the language to find one day
"I made it here, I will guide this text to the ends of the Earth. Pirate Gol D Roger."said Roger as he repeated the words he told Oden to carve again.
'I must see it, Roger. The final chapter of the Great Adventure that you're devoting your life to!' thought Oden as he wanted to see the journey Roger was on to the very end.
A short while later, the entire crew was back on the Oro Jackson with the sky people seeing them off as they decided to head back to the Sea!
"Guys! Let's go back to the blue sea!"said Roger valiantly as his crew agreed as the Oro Jackson began sailing to the gate that would take them back to the ocean…
… Only to see that the road that would take them back down was a straight plunge back to the ocean! And before anyone knew what was going on, the Oro Jackson began plummeting down to the ocean like a meteor descending to the Earth!
The sky people meanwhile just said their goodbyes.
"You could have warned us!"screamed Jaune, as the sky people should have told them!
"If nothing is done, will be smashed against the waves and broke into bits!"said Oden as he and Toki were hanging on to anything that would keep them from falling out of the ship!
"Here we go! Skypiea's famous octo balloon!"said Gran Fall, as he blew on a whistle.
Soon, a giant sky octopus wrapped its tentacles around the Oro Jackson as the crew began freaking out and wondering what was going to happen next before they noticed that they stopped free falling…?!
Soon they looked back at the octopus and saw that it had inflated its head to act like a balloon…?!
"It's a balloon?"asked Jaune, as nothing made sense anymore…
"How interesting."said Oden with amusement.
Soon the ship began to float down at a much safer pace but as soon as they got to a certain height the octopus soon began deflating, and before anyone could realize what was going on the octopus let go of the ship and headed back to the sky!"
Once again, the Oro Jackson was free falling into The Ocean below and submerged into the water for a moment before reimbursing with a bit of damage here and there but otherwise intact.
"Ouch!"said Shanks, as he and everyone else were soaking wet.
"It's cold!"complained Oden as Jaune was spitting out a fish that ended up in his mouth.
As for the octopus, he couldn't reach the cloud and started deflating and headed back to the ship, where it ended up hitting Oden in the face!
"That was scary."said Cat Viper as he thought he was going to die.
"Was it an air leak?"asked Dogstorm as Oden was trying to get the octopus's tentacles off of his face!
"We managed to come out alive."said Oden after he got the octopus off of his face.
"We're alive, and that's all that matters."said Jaune as he was glad that everyone was alive, wet and cold but otherwise alive.
…
One another day back on the ocean, Shanks and Buggy were getting into an argument about the North and South Pole, more specifically, which Pole was colder…?
Buggy on the North Pole while Shanks on the South Pole, and soon there argument turned into a fist fight as both were saying that they were right and the other was wrong as the rest of the crew watched on!
Rayleigh decided to put a stop to it!
"That is enough!"said the first mate as he hit both cabin boys on the head to stop them from fighting!
"You guys fight all the time! Who cares which one is colder, the North Pole or the South Pole."said Rayleigh, as Shanks and Buggy were staring daggers at one another.
"I want to see both the North and the South Pole."said Oden as he thought what Rayleigh said wasn't a bad idea.
"Oden, we should go to the North Pole!"said Buggy before Shanks put in his two cents!
"No, the South Pole!"said Shanks before the cabin boys began glaring at one another again and looked like they were going to start fighting again!
"Vice Captain already told you two to knock it off!"said Jaune as he picked up both Shanks and Buggy by their heads to separate them as he tossed them to opposite sides of the ship to separate them so they could cool off!
"OW!"said Buggy and Shanks at the same time as they landed!
"Roger, where should we go next?"asked Rayleigh as Roger's decision was the most important.
"Of course, our destination is the last Island on the Grand Line!"said Roger as he thought the answer was obvious.
"But to get there, we need copies of all four Road Poneglyphs,"said Roger as he knew that was the only way to find the last Island.
"Road Poneglyphs?"asked Jaune as he was stroking his beard.
"The stone that we found on the sky island? There is one in the Land of Wano."said Oden as he remembers seeing one in his early childhood.
"Our Mokomo Dukedom has one too."said Cat Viper as he remembers that the current ruler of the Dukedom showed him and Dogstorm the Poneglyph in question before they departed for Wano!
"Those countries you guys are from have that stone?!"asked Roger, who was clearly shocked by this revelation!
"Unlike the one one the Sky Island, it's red, though!"said Oden with the final part of his sentence said with Dogstorm and Cat Viper at the same time.
"That's the one I wanted most! Why didn't you tell me?!"asked Roger as he couldn't believe the people who knew the location of the Road Poneglyphs he had been looking for were right under his nose.
"So we have two out of the four."said Shanks with excitement.
"No, I've got a copy of Linlin's Road Poneglyph, which I took by force."said Roger as he corrected his subordinate to say that they had three out of the four, since a little while ago he took a copy of the Road Poneglyph owned by Big Mom!
"And I think I know where the remaining one is."said Roger as his right hand congratulated him.
"Yeah I can't believe it, we'll really have all four!"said Roger is he couldn't believe what he had been looking for was finally within his grasp!
"This shouldn't be too bad."said Jaune as he was glad they didn't have to do much work to find all four Road Poneglyphs.
"Sorry to ruin the fun, but something is wrong with the ship."said Gaban as he walked onto the main deck.
"What?!"asked Roger with confusion.
"With my untrained eye, I can't tell what is broken."said Gaban, who knew that the ship was damaged, but he didn't know where.
"Okay, I know where we should go."said Roger as he had a good idea what to do.
"Where?"asked Rayleigh, although the expression on his face said he already knew the answer.
"Water Seven, the City of Water!"Roger answered.
"The City of Water?"asked Oden as he had never heard of such a thing.
"Sounds romantic."said Toki with excitement.
"Guys, let's go!"yelled Roger as his crew agreed, and they began steering the ship to Water Seven.
A few days later, the Oro Jackson arrived at an island that looked like it was completely artificial as it looked like it was covered him to tell with man-made material.
"An island!"yelled Buggy from the lookout.
"I see an island!"yelled Shanks as well as he saw the island through his telescope.
"What's that?!"asked Oden with shock.
"That's Water Seven."answered Roger as he was excited to be back at Water Seven again.
Jaune and the others were amazed by what they saw as Water Seven looked like it was a big fancy fountain as the Oro Jackson began to sail into the island's canal system.
"I've never seen such massive water magic."said Oden as he has never seen a fountain before in his life.
"Those are fountains."corrected Rayleigh.
"They move water through The fountains in a continuous motion so it appears like magic lord Oden."said Jaune as he wasn't surprised that Oden didn't know how fountains work.
"The ones they have sure are gigantic."said Roger as he never gets tired of looking at the fountains of Water Seven.
"This places beautiful."said Toki as she was admiring the city.
"The City of Water, huh?"said Oden as he as well was admiring what he was seeing as the Oro Jackson sailed into a large wreckage of ships.
"This must be where we are going to meet Roger's guy."said Jaune . He had a feeling they were going to meet someone Roger trusted to fix the ship.
'The only person I could think of is the person who designed and built the Oro Jackson in the first place. But who exactly is this guy or girl who built it?' thought Jaune as he had a feeling they were going to find out.
Soon, everyone disembarked as a large longhorn cowfish. Fishman approached them.
"You made it here like "boom" Roger!"said Tom, the man who built the Oro Jackson.
"Tom!"said Roger as he was excited to see, again along with every member of the Roger Pirates n
"It's been a while, guys."said Tom as he greeted the Roger Pirates like old friends.
'So he's the guy who built the Oro Jackson! Man, he looks strong, and his hands look big, but they clearly show they know how to do delicate work. This guy must be one heck of a shipwright to have been able to build a ship like the Oro Jackson!' thought Jaune, as he could tell that Tom was one heck of a shipwright.
"Yeah, I missed you!"said Roger, who was glad to see that Tom was alive and well.
"Have you completed the train?"asked Roger as he knew about Tom's latest project to create a train that can move across the ocean.
"You mean the sea train? No way! I'm still designing it!"said Tom as he was still in the design phase, trying to figure out how to get the tracks on the ocean without the ocean destroying them!
"Now, what did you break? You only come here when your ship needs repairs."inquire Tom as he knew Roger didn't come around unless he broke something on the ship.
"Yeah, it fell from a high place."said Roger as Tom quickly guessed what happened.
"You went to the Sky Island?!"asked Tom
"Yeah like "boom"!"answered Roger.
"But after that boom, we fell to the Sea."added Shanks.
"I see."said Tom as everyone began laughing as a middle-aged woman walked towards them.
"You guys are as noisy as always."said Kokoro, the secretary for Tom's workers.
"Hey, Kokoro."greeted Roger.
"We want to hear all about your journey, but why don't you eat first."insisted Kokoro, and she was offering the Roger Pirates a meal.
"Some food is ready for you."she added.
Oden and Jaune meanwhile wandered off as Oden noticed the young man with spiky blue hair wearing a tropical shirt and speedos working on some kind of weapon.
"Oh! You're working on your underwear. What a high-spirited kid."said Oden as the young man was using a wrench to screw some lug nuts.
"Don't bother me, go away!"said the young man as he was focusing on his work.
"Are you an orphan? Do you want me to introduce you to our captain?"asked Oden as the young man finally turned around.
"You guys are pirates, right?"the young man asked.
"So what?"asked Jaune.
"Then no! I was just abandoned by pirates."said the young man as he went back to work and began hammering his invention.
"Abandoned? Bad timing."said Oden as he began to laugh.
Jaune meanwhile stared at this young man and quickly saw that he was building something that would be part of a ship. Was he one of Tom's apprentices like Iceberg? And why did he have the feeling this was not going to be the last time he met this young…?
Gather up all of the crew!
Time to ship out Bink's Brew!
The Roger Pirates sang as they were sailing through rough waters, getting pumbled and thrown across the sea!
Pirates we, we'll decide and conquer the all the seas!
With the waves to rest our heads, ship beneath us as our bed!
Toki was holding Hiyori, who was sound asleep with Oden ever watchful with a smile on his face.
Hoisted high up on the mast our Jolly Roger flies!
Shanks and Buggy had their hands wrapped around each other's shoulders as they were singing along.
Somewhere in the endless sky, a storm has started comin' by!
Waves are dancing having fun, it's time to sound thedrums!
Buggy, Jaune, Oden, Momonosuke, Rayleigh, and Cat Viper were running for their lives from some kind of giant elephant pig thing!
If we blow winds of fear, the thebend of us is near!
Even so, tommo-row the sun will rise again!
The Roger Pirates were visiting an island country known as Tequila Wolf, a Cold Island that was on top of a giant Stone bridge. Oden watched on with binoculars as the citizens AKA slaves were working on the bridge that has been continuously built over the last seven hundred years by orders of the World Nobles for some unknown reason.
Yohohoho hohoho yohoho hohoho
The Roger Pirates approached Sabaody Archipelago to get their ship coated so that they could go to the underwater Island of Fishman Kingdom.
"Let's set sail!"said Oden as the Oro Jackson submerged under the water with the coating allowing every member on the ship to breathe..
"The Fishman Kingdom, huh? I've been there with Whitebeard."exclaimed Oden as Jaune remembered that at one time they defended Fishman Kingdom from illegal trafficking of Fishman and mermaids by Pirates and traffickers during their time as members of the Whitebeard Pirates.
The World Government declared that it was illegal to traffic any intelligent life but it was Whitebeard's declaration that Fishman Island was his territory that managed to do the Fishman island with the World Government couldn't do, completely stop the illegal trafficking of their citizens once and for all!
"Don't drop your guard! No matter how many times you go, your chances of dying won't change."said Roger as the ocean was full of danger, and they best be on guard.
Soon Roger and Oden began hearing the Sea Kings declare that their ruler would be born. No one else could hear it as Roger asked his first mate if he could hear someone talking, to which his reply was asking what his captain was talking about.
'Must be something about them that allows them to hear things we can't.' thought Jaune as this world was full of many mysteries, so a few people able to hear what Sea Kings are saying wasn't so surprising for him to believe.
After all, Sea Kings were the only creatures around, so those were probably the creatures Roger and Oden were hearing.
"Who's talking this deep in the water?!"asked Roger as he was looking around, but no one responded as the Oro Jackson was approaching Fishman Island.
"Toki! That's the Fishman Island!"said Oden as the Oro Jackson arrived at the gates of Fishman Island.
"How interesting, it seems like the whole island is in a bubble."said Toki with amazement that one could see the entire atmosphere in the giant bubble around the island.
"Wait! Something is happening!"said Jaune as he noticed fishmen covered in armor and holding Trident approaching them.
"The Fishman tirbe!l?!"said Oden as the Oro Jackson was surrounded.
"They're all around us."said Toki with worry as a large merman wearing similar armor and the trident approached the ship.
"What do you want surface dwellers?"asked the large merman.
"Depending on your answer, you might be exterminated."said the large merman as he held his trident at the ready!
"Neptune!"said Jaune, as he grabbed his sword at the ready as he wondered why Neptune was pointing his trident at them when he's usually so welcoming to surface dwellers!
Oden readies his swords as well, while Roger ran to the front of the ship!
"Whoa, wait, wait! Look closer! It's me, Roger! Great King Neptune!"said Roger as King Neptune recognized the pirate captain.
"Roger? Oh, I see! So you guys are going to do it!"said King Neptune as a vein appeared on his forehead.
"King Neptune, I don't know if you remember me, but I really think you should start explaining what exactly is going on before we start killing each other. Because no matter how much of an advantage you think you have, both sides are going to have casualties, and I know that's what neither of us want… So. Let's. Just. Talk."said Jaune as one would say the pen is mightier than the sword in situations like this, and at times, it was best to talk to see what the problem was before anything else.
King Neptune stared at the young man and knew he was right as he knew personally how strong the Roger Pirates were, and that no matter how much of advantage they had in the water, if they started fighting many of his men would die!
"Okay, let's talk at the Mermaid Inlet."said King Neptune as he agreed to hear out what the Roger Pirates had to say at a spot where no civilians would be caught in the crossfire in case negotiations break down.
…
Once inside the atmosphere of Fishman Island, the Roger Pirates and King Neptune's forces talked it out and managed to get any misunderstanding cleared without any bloodshed. Turns out the whole misunderstanding started because of a prophecy foretold by a child who seems to have an ability to glimpse into the future with the help of a crystal ball, but only at random times.
"We were not up to anything bad. Come on, why are you so scared of a prophecy? You're better than that."said Roger as he never expected King Neptune to be the superstitious type.
"The prophecy said someone will break the gate of Fishman Island soon. And now you guys are here, so most likely…"began King Neptune before the Sea Kings started attacking the front gate.
"King Neptune, it's been broken. The Sea Kings chewed up the gate!"said one of Neptune's guards as he came to give his report.
"What?! The gentle Sea King did such a thing?! It can't be true!"said Neptune with shock.
"Gentle?!"said Jaune with confusion as all the Sea Kings he has encountered weren't gentle at all!
"It can true…"said Oden as the prophecy did happen, just not in the way Neptune in his army expected.
"There's a hole in the outer bubble."added the royal guard.
"Patch it up! Given it, a quick fix!"ordered Neptune.
"We couldn't prevent it."said King Neptune, as despite his best efforts, the prophecy came into fruition.
"See?! It wasn't us!"said Roger, who was clearly annoyed that he and his crew were being accused of something they never planned on doing in the first place!
A short while later, the Roger Pirates were brought into the Forest of the Sea as the king went to see the little girl who had prophesize that the gate would be attacked in the first place! Her name is Sharley, a mako shark mermaid who is only three years old.
"The Sea Kings are going crazy because they're waiting for the mermaid princess to be born."said Sharley, as she stared into her crystal ball.
"The mermaid princess? That's another prophecy?" asked one of Neptune's guard.
"Then the king will have a baby!"said another guard with excitement.
"We have to celebrate!"said another guard with many of the citizens agreeing, as this was wonderful news!
"Wait, wait! I'm not even married yet! I was only enthroned a few months ago."said Neptune, as he wasn't even a husband yet, so there was no way he would be a father yet!
"But King Neptune, she even prophesied the day when the former king would die."argued one of his guards, as Sharley never got a prediction wrong to which Neptune had to begrudgingly agree with.
"And that sexy… I mean, that hateful mermaid Otohime's political demonstration that other day was predicted by her too."said one of Neptune's guards as he was referring to the well-known activist that was fighting for human and Fishman relationships to be on equal grounds!
"Otohime?!"asked King Neptune, who was clearly flustered by the name.
"It's not like it brought me any comfort!"exclaimed the king in his defense as he was clearly bushing.
'He clearly has a crush on Otohime…' thought the citizens as it was clear the king had feelings for the political activist.
[Forest of the Sea]
A little while later, King Neptune met up with the Roger pirates in the Forest of the Sea, just underneath the kingdom where another Poneglyph was located.
"These days, the whole country is swayed by that girl's prophecies…"said King Neptune as Oden was translating the Poneglyph.
"We're not here to listen to your personal story, Neptune!"said Gaban as Neptune was following him and Crocus.
"Oh, that's right."realized the king before he noticed Oden.
"How is it, Oden?"asked Roger as he walked over to see if Oden had finished translating the Poneglyph.
"Well… there are two. So I thought we could get a lot of information, but one of the amazing so important."said Oden as one of them wasn't as important to their mission as the other.
"It's an apology letter from someone named Joyboy."said Oden, as Neptune couldn't believe he could actually read the Poneglyphs.
"I can't believe it! He can really read the script!"
"Yeah, by the way, do you have a weapon to control the Sea Kings?!"asked Roger, confusing King Neptune.
"A weapon?!"inquired the king.
"The Sky Island Stone says it's here."answered Roger as according to the stone back in Shandora, Poseidon was located in the Fishman Kingdom.
"The ancient weapon that has the name of a deity… Poseidon."said Roger with a serious tone in his voice.
"To tell you the truth… I had a slight chill when I heard Sharley's prophecy earlier."began Neptune as Roger listened in.
"Once every few centuries in this country, a mermaid who can talk to the Sea Kings is born…" maybe that mermaid is."began King Neptune before Roger quickly caught on to what the King was applying and finished his sentence for him.
"So your daughter will become the weapon that will destroy the world someday."said Roger as it didn't take a genius to find out what King Neptune was going to say.
"It's just a prophecy! And even if it's called an ancient weapon, it doesn't have to be used as one."said King Neptune as there was no way he was going to let his future daughter become a weapon of mass destruction.
"I never thought that Poseidon was a mermaid."said Oden as he wasn't expecting a weapon to be a living being a flesh and blood.
Roger silently agreed.
"I think we should go and talk with the little girl who prophesied everything."suggested Jaune as everyone else agreed with him.
A short while later, the Roger Pirates were brought where the little girl was as Roger sat in front of Sharley and her crystal ball.
"Hey Sharley, when will the mermaid princess be born?"asked Roger as Sharley looked into her crystal ball.
"Ten!"answered Sharley as she held out her eight fingers and two thumbs, confusing Roger.
"I guess it's ten years from now…"guessed King Neptune.
"Wow, you can already count to ten. What a smart girl."said Jaune as he started petting Sharley, causing the mermaid to blush as she swam away with her bubble inner tube.
Jaune was confused by this as he didn't understand why she was acting like that.
"But Roger, I can't believe you're interested in such a weapon. I'm disappointed in you."said King Neptune as he didn't think Roger was that kind of guy.
"Neptune, what we want is the vast amount of treasure is left by the people who called it a weapon."corrected Rayleigh, as Roger never had any intention of using Poseidon as a weapon.
"Are you relieved? We won't come to kidnap your hairy daughter who will be born someday."said Roger as Neptune was insulted that he called his future daughter hairy.
"She won't be hairy!"said King Neptune in his future daughter's defense.
The Roger pirate just began laughing at the King's expense, and before long, they set sail once again while singing their usual sea shanty as they continued their adventures to get to the last Island.
Gather up all of the crew!
Time to ship out Bink's Brew
Could be today, could be tomorrow, Twilight dreaming.
No longer can we see, shadow hands still waving free!
Why worry, there's sure to be a moonlit night again.
Roger, Cat Viper, Dogstorm, and Jaune were running as they ended up on an island where purple lightning was constantly striking the ground, and Oden, Shanks, and Buggy ended up getting struck!
Jaune, meanwhile, was carrying Oden and the others that passed out from the lightning strike as they kept running for their lives to get away from the lightning and not get hit by it!
Gather up all of the crew!
Time to ship out Bink's Brew
Sing a song, for all the oceans wide!
All all is said and done, we will end up skeletons!
Endless, aimless, the story of the uproarious seas!
The Roger Pirates discovered another island with a Poneglyph. Shanks was playing with Momonosuke, and Hiyori was getting carried on Gaban's shoulders.
Nozdon meanwhile was pointing to the Poneglyph as Oden was translating it. A short while later, the Roger Pirates discovered a hot spring on the island and decided to take a nice, well-earned bath.
Jaune was having a good time as he wondered how much longer these adventures would last until they could find the last Island!
Only Oden and Roger probably knew that answer!