This is the 15th chapter. I don't own the series of One Piece.

Monsters Appear!

Somewhere at sea

After the Masira pirates grabs hold of the ship under the sea, Masira, Zoro, Luffy, Ventus, and Sanji were about to confront when the giant sea turtle chops the ship in one bite. Both the Straw Hats and the Masira Salvagers panicked when they saw the giant sea turtle merged out of the water. It got the Masira Salvagers worried of their Captain being eaten and was inside of the giant sea turtles mouth when they're muttering amongst themselves while making the monkey sound.

"Captain! Captain!"

One of Masira's crew members shouts his name and there's no response. However, Nami looked at the giant sea turtle with her eyes widen in horror when she saw the size and how it took the shipwreck in one bite.

"One tooth is the size of our boat!?" Nami exclaims. "That's it, we're dead!"

"There's no monster! This is just one big stupid dream that we're all having together for some reason!?" Usopp screamed, covering his eyes.

"A dream, right!?" Chopp exclaims in a fake smile.

"It was just a dream." Nami, Usopp, and Chopper said with a sigh in relief, thought it was a solution to all their problem.

And just as the three walked away, a certain archeologist said to her crew.

"You know." Robin said, making Nami, Usopp, and Chopper flinched and stop in their tracks. "Our boys just got eaten."

Both Robin and Caius are now watching the giant sea turtle began eating the ship, where their crew and Masira are at.

"So, did that ship we were trying to salvage." Caius adds.

"How can you two be so calm?!" Usopp shouted at them while the giant sea turtle continued eating the ship and Robin and Caius continued observing.

"Yep, most definitely eaten. I can the see the air-hose dangling from its jaws." Robin states when Chopper turns back into his normal form.

"Stop?!" Usopp whimpers, causing Chopper to yell with panic.

"A SEA MONSTER ATE MY FRIENDS!? WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!" Chopper yelled with budging eyes and shark-like teeth, running around the deck.

"This is all you fault!" Usopp shouts with white eyes and shark-like teeth, points his accusing finger at Nami. "You're the one who said it would be safe from the bottom of the Grand Line?! I don't know what qualifies as safe in your book, but in mine, it's not a man-eating turtles!?"

"You're right." Nami admits, cutting Usopp off which left him confused.

She looked up at the giant sea turtles mouth, where their crew are, she raised her hand to her mouth.

"Sorry!" Nami shouted casually, crossed her arms with a huff.

"This is good as its gonna get, I guess!?" Usopp cries in teary eyes, collapses while covering his eyes.

However, the giant sea turtle decided to move when it's about to turn, it dragged the air hoses that's still attached between the two ships. It causes the ship to tilt and Nami, Usopp, and Chopper to stumble down against the mechanical pulleys.

"If we don't cut the air hoses, that beast will drag us down to the bottom of the ocean." Robin points out.

"AAAAAAH! I don't care what you do, just do something! You're the tough and smart lady!?" Usopp shouts in panic.

"Give me a minute, I'll see what I can come up with." Robin told him while the giant sea turtle continues dragging the ships when the Masira Salvagers thought of a way to save Masira.

"Okay, boys! Time to save our noble Captain! Our pride, honor, and lives are at stake!"

And with that, the Masira Salvagers began to reel themselves closer to the giant sea turtle in an attempt to save their Captain.

"Our Captain is alive and we'll find him, mark my words!"

"They're right, it's these challenging times and ruthless streak fight which we are made." Usopp muttered with determination, gathered his courage while watching them.

"Usopp!" Nami called him, earned his attention. "Cut the air hose and get us outta here!"

"This is what we are made of?!" Usopp exclaims with white eyes and shark-like teeth, about to collapse down to the deck.

"COWARD?!" Chopper yelled accusingly with bloodshot eyes and shark-like teeth.

Suddenly, the sky turned dark and it causes the Masira Salvagers to stop along with the giant sea turtle. The Straw Hats are confused, wondering why the sky turned black since it's clear and there are no weather coming in, but Usopp and Chopper began to panic.

"What is that? It's like everything got dark!?" Usopp exclaims, looks up at the sky.

"Scary!?" Chopper adds, shocked with his jaws dropped.

"There's no way. Why is it so dark?" Nami questions, looking at her pocket watch. "It's not that late."

'I'm beginning to feel something ominous around here...and it's...' Caius mentally thought in grimace, feeling a dark aura that's somewhere at sea it made his spine shivered when the air hoses were loosened.

"IT'S TIME TO LEAVE GUYS!?" Usopp demanded with a yell. "NOW! LUFFY! ZORO! SANJI! VENTUS!"

Though, Robin turns her hand and noticed the Masira Salvagers knew what it was and it got them panicked.

"This is a bad omen! We all know the sudden dark is the sign of the Harbinger of Monsters will soon rise!"

"We gotta save the boss and get outta here!"

Then, something leapt out of the water, or rather, thrown out. The Straw Hats looked up and saw their Captain all tied up in the sack, that emerged out of the sea with a gasp of air and fell onto the ship.

"Luffy!?" Usopp and Nami exclaims in unsion as she ran towards her Captain.

"Tell me what happened! Are you dead?! Where are the others?!" Nami questions while slapping Luffy in the face.

Then, Sanji, Zoro, and Ventus grabs hold of the wooden railings, leaps over and landed on the ship with a heavy pant which gotten Usopp, Chopper, and Caius' attention.

"Zoro! Sanji! Ventus!" Usopp exclaimed.

"Set sail now! We gotta get outta here!" Zoro warned them.

"Yeah, that guy is crazy!" Sanji adds.

"Not mention we're almost lunch from that monster-sized turtle!" Ventus adds.

"I'm so glad you're okay." Usopp said with relief and a teary smile.

"Ventus!" Chopper said, leaps into his brother-figure's arms.

"Sorry for the wait, Chopper." Ventus said with assuring smile when Usopp realizes the current situation.

"Oh right! Let's get away from this stinkin' turtle as fast as we can!" Usopp suggested.

"No! It wasn't a turtle, it was a monkey." Zoro corrected him.

"Yeah, a bonafide sea monkey." Sanji adds.

"Can't say I'm too surprised that he and Luffy got along as well as they did." Ventus said in annoyance. "Not to mention we're about to be sea turtle chow."

"Oh yeah, you try to warn us before it's too late. Sorry." Sanji apologizes to the young Dragoon, but turns back to Usopp. "Anyway, they're both monkeys."

"And when we caught a glimpse of all this stuff that we've taken from the ship, he totally flipped out and went on a rampage." Zoro said.

"I was lucky that I just knock some senses into that oversized ape, he's starting to annoy." Ventus adds.

"I've never seen a primate act like that before!" Sanji exclaims.

"And he said his name is Masira." Ventus told him.

"Yep, that's Masira the King of All Salvagers." Usopp informed them while Nami continued slapping Luffy in the face. "But never mind him, how did the four of you escape from the giant sea turtle?"

"Ugh, why do you keep talking about a turtle?" Zoro questions with a question.

"Because there's one behind you." Caius told him, then looked at the giant sea turtle as they turned, noticing the turtle's mouth is gaping open with dread. "And from the looks of that turtle, its mouth is gaping open, saw something that's ominous in front of us."

"Oh, I get it, of course! That's how you guys escaped!" Usopp exclaims.

"WE WERE IN THAT THINGS MOUTH?!" Sanji and Zoro shouts, quickly stands up.

"That's what I've been trying to tell you guys." Ventus told them, stands up. "That's the same turtle that ate the ship along with us!"

"Nothing gets past you guys, does it?" Usopp rhetorically asks.

Nami suggested that they should get away after given her an explanation. Luffy then groans as he quickly opened his eyes with a blink, stands up and cough the air out of his mouth while placed his hand on his straw hat.

"Hey, when did this night happened?" Luffy asks, dumbfounded.

"Attention all hands! We're getting outta here now!" Zoro shouts with an order when something leaps out of the water.

It was none other than Masira, who's landing on the top of the wooden railings and he looks furious as he lets out a yell which gotten the Straw Hats attention.

"Not so fast! Hand over the treasure you stole!" Masira demands. "Or I'll tear your ship apart and find all of it anyway!"

"Is he right? You guys found some treasure?" Nami asks with a glee.

"We sure did! Tons of it!" Luffy answered with a chuckle.

'This isn't good. If he starts rampaging the ship, we'll all go down...' Zoro mentally thought.

The Straw Hats prepared themselves for the worst, but Ventus turns and saw something at the sea that made his eyes widen in great shock and horror. Chopper and Robin widen their eyes which made Masria confused, but heard his crew whimpered in dread as he turns to them.

"Hey, Captain! Behind you!?"

"Hmm, what's behind me?" Masira asks as he turns around.

Before them, they saw five shadowy figures that are much bigger than a giant sea turtle, much more like their giants. If got the Straw Hats and Masira widen their eyes in dread and horror with their faces pale in panic. One of the giant shadowy figure raises it spear when suddenly...

"SEA MONSTER!?" Masira and Luffy yelled in panic.

And with that, the Straw Hats quickly grabbed the oars and rowed away, causing the Going Merry to sail as quickly as possible. Soon enough, they're rowing towards the light and they made it out of the dark sky and away from the shadowy figures.

"That couldn't have been real..." Zoro states, panting heavily.

"If it is, that will kill us all..." Caius said.

"Those things were taller than the sky..." Usopp whimpered.

"The Grand Line is an endless parade of mysteries and annoyance." Sanji points out, lighting his cigarette. "I mean, look at the nightmare of just making it today."

"No kidding." Ventus agrees. "First, there was a huge galleon that fell from the sky and almost hit us."

"The Log Poses needle started pointing to the sky." Nami adds.

"A psycho makeup wearing monkey shows up and blocks our way." Usopp continued.

"And then, a gigantic sea turtle came and eat our salvage ship." Chopper said.

"Then darkness fell." Robin said.

"Because of biggest monsters I've ever seen in my life blocked out the sun!?" Luffy exclaims in deep shock.

"I must admit, even I was intimidated by those things." Masira comments.

Everyone relaxed for a while, trying to forget about the giant shadowy figures, but it got them realizing that Masira is still on the ship.

"BEAT IT!?" Luffy, Sanji, Zoro, and Ventus shouts with white eyes and shark-like teeth, kicked Masria off the ship.

A little while later, the Going Merry began to sail across the Grand Line once more. As they sail, Luffy, Sanji, Zoro, and Ventus revealed what they hauled up at the ship. Though, Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro brought nothing but old-rusted armor, weapons, and other junk, while Ventus revealed a few old books and seashells. Both Usopp and Chopper were leaning against the wooden railings, looking at the sky.

"Those monsters were too big any of us to take them." Usopp told him.

"Yeah, if I never see them again, it would be a blessing." Chopper states.

"Don't sweat it, they're nothing." Usopp said which it's a lie, earned his attention. "If I really cut loose, I could've taught those sea monsters a thing or two."

"Really?!" Chopper exclaims with intrigue.

"Sure, I fought 10 of those things a while back." Usopp answered, which it's an obvious lie.

Caius couldn't help but sigh, annoyed of Usopp's lies which it got him wondering how does Ventus ever put up with them. He then turns, noticed some junk around the ship along with books and seashells.

"Come on, you guys! Tell me you've at least try to find something down there that we can use!" Nami scolds them, but Luffy is too busy walking around with the armor on him. "All you brought back is a bunch of scattered junk! There's not a single clue here about how to get to Sky Island!"

"There wasn't anything there, believe me." Zoro told her seriously. "We looked."

"Yep, if there was something else down there, we would've found it." Sanji adds with an agreement. "The ship is in terrible shape, all jacked up like it had maybe attacked and raided. Or perhaps a mutiny had broken out, and broken out and they all killed each other in a violence struggle for power and survival."

"Look around, boys! This is exactly why we need more information!" Nami scolds them with a glare. "Intelligence means the difference between life and death for this whole crew, and if we're gonna sail to Sky Island, then we need more information to stay alive or whatever happen to that ship could happen to us too!? We didn't brave giant monsters so you can bring back a creepy octopus, some rusty swords, and a broken dish! This is all junk and you're all idiots!?"

Nami then proceeds to stomp the junk in frustration, much to Sanji and Zoro's dismay while try to protest. Ventus however, isn't listening since he's looking through the old books to try and gather information about the Skypiea or any information he can use, but so far, he only found nothing.

'There's nothing here about the Sky Island.' Ventus mentally thought in frustration, but noticing the seashells. 'I know Caius' Voidsents found me some seashells, but I'm not a collector.'

"Ventus! Are you even listening?!" Nami called him, earned his attention. "Please tell me there's something in those books that tells us how to get to Sky Island."

"I wish. I checked them all, but as it turns out, there's nothing about how to get there. Not even on those logbooks." Ventus told her with a sigh.

"Even though, you're the only one who actually brought back something we need, but none of them had anything about how to get there." Nami said with a sigh, but noticed the collection of seashells. "And also, what's with the seashells?"

"How should I know? Caius' Voidsent just dumped them in a sack while I was collecting books for information." Ventus told her, sighed. "But for reason, these aren't like the seashells I've seen. 'Cause these shells are like the size of my fist."

"I think you're right." Nami agrees, looked at Luffy who's approaching her. "What is that, Luffy?"

"Armor." Luffy answered simply.

Nami had enough as she just simply punched Luffy, knocking him out and destroyed the armor.

"Whoa, she crushed the armor?!" Zoro exclaims in shock.

"Nami, you didn't even notice the pretty seashells I've brought you~!" Sanji said, tried to woo her by showing the seashells.

"Creme your seashells in you shorts." Nami said in annoyance as she and Ventus walked up to the deck.

"She's so beautiful when she's angry~!" Sanji said, gone goo-goo eyes.

"You should still try to keep your distance." Usopp warned him quietly.

"Bad day, huh?" Robin inquires with a smirk, sitting on the railing.

"It's only gonna get worse, working with these guys." Nami told her. "No offence, Ventus."

"None taken." Ventus said with a shrug. "Even though, they are idiots. But even so, the logbooks said nothing on how to get to Sky Island. We're sitting ducks."

"Maybe this will help." Robin suggested, extends an Eternal Pose to them.

"An Eternal Pose?" Nami said with her eyes widen, looks at the Eternal Pose.

"How did you get a hold of it?" Ventus questioned.

"Oh, I took it off that salvagers ship earlier, just in case." Robin answered, but it didn't take long for the young Dragoon to figure it out while Nami trembles.

"You and Ventus are the only ones I can depend on." Nami said with a teary smile, but the moment is ruined by a certain captain.

"All right, who's up for an octopus dinner tonight?!" Luffy asks, showing the octopus to his crew with a chuckle.

"That boy has got to learn to relax." Robin said in annoyance, unamused of Luffy's antics.

"Not like it'll happen anyway." Ventus points out as he and Nami sighed, but noticed the name at the Eternal Pose.

"Jaya?" Nami said. "This must've been their home port."

"Jaya? Is that where we were going next?" Luffy asks curiously with his mouth full.

"THAT WILL BE YOUR DECISION, CAPTAIN/MORON!?" Nami and Ventus yelled in annoyance with white eyes and shark-like teeth as Luffy leaps off the railing, lands on the deck and turned to his crew.

"All hands-on deck! Set our course to Jaya!" Luffy announces, but confused. "So, uh, any of you know which direction that might be?"

"Starboard." Nami answered quickly.

"You heard her, Chopper!" Luffy ordered as Chopper head towards the helm as they sail their way towards Jaya. "Onward to Jaya!"

"Now hold up just a minute, if we head off to this Jaya place that's so important, won't the Log Poses needle change its position again?" Usopp asks with his mouth full, but swallows the food. "'Cause if that happens, we won't know which direction Sky Island is!"

"What?!" Chopper exclaims shockingly.

"All hands, full stop!" Luffy shouts furiously, then approaches to Nami. "Want to tell me why you're messing with my head, Nami?!"

"I'm not, you're the genius who'd decided we should go to Jaya." Nami points out bluntly, crossed her arms.

"Oh yeah, that's right." Luffy said, realizing it. "Well, I didn't know it was going to ruin our plans to get to Skypeia!?"

"You idiot, the Log Pose always points at the sky." Ventus points out in annoyance. "Not our fault that you're just simple-minded."

Luffy couldn't help but growl.

"But for now, we need to get to Jaya to get some information from someone knows about the Sky Island." Ventus suggested. "Though, I doubt the needle is going to change as soon as we get there."

"He's right, so why don't we pull into port and then leave before it has a chance to adjust." Robin suggests with an agreement.

"Sounds good to me." Nami replied. "And if we're lucky, it'll work."

"That sounds like a plan for us." Usopp, Chopper, and Luffy agreed.

"Now quit stuffing your faces and get to work! We're setting sail to Jaya!" Ventus ordered as his crew, except Nami and Robin, began working.

"I wonder what this Jaya place like? I hope it's relaxing." Chopper said.

"Nami, my sweet~! Robin, my dear~! Dinner is serve!" Sanji announces. "This afternoon, you will be dining on fresh gourmet octopus and seaweed stew~!"

While at the sea, Masira was left stranded after being kicked out by the Straw Hats which left him furious...again.

"Great! Who do they think they are, leaving me out here!?" Masria snarled. "like they don't have enough room on their ship or something!"

While the Straw Hats continued to sail towards Jaya, Ventus couldn't help but feel curious about those seashells the Voidsent gave him. Normally, seashells can come off at either the sea or beaches, but only small sizes which the seashells that size of a fist is abnormal. Soon as Ventus take a closer look, he noticed something is off.

'Are these...holes? They're small, and no cracks.' Ventus mentally thought, looking at the other side and saw something odd about the apex. 'Is there...a line? Probably loose or something...'

Curiosity got the better of him as he pressed the apex, which surprisingly enough it went down. And then...

"AHHHHHHHHHH!?" Ventus yelled in pain when the seashell shocked him.

"Ventus!? What's wrong?" Nami asks with worry when she and her crew turns to the young Dragoon, saw him lying on the floor and slightly charred.

"I think...I have proof the Sky Island exists..." Ventus groaned, breathing the smoke out of his mouth. "Unless if it's common in the Grand Line..."

Ventus then shows the seashell to his crew which it got them confused.

"What's so special about the seashell?" Usopp inquires, taking the seashell from his hand.

"Press the apex and you'll know." Ventus suggested, sits up.

Not questioning his instructions, Usopp did as requested by pressing the apex and...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?" Usopp yelled, ending up getting shocked, then collapsed on the floor, more charred than the young Dragoon.

"Whoa! That's so cool!" Luffy said excitedly. "It's a Mystery Seashell!?"

"NO IT'S NOT!?" The Straw Hats, except Robin, shouts.

Ventus then grabs hold of the seashell from Usopp and showed it to his crew.

"So, did any of you hear anything about the seashell that does this in the Grand Line?" Ventus questioned, specifically to Robin.

"No, I haven't seen anything like it actually." Robin replied.

"Neither have I." Caius adds. "Even during my travels, I've never seen anything like it."

"So, then...that means it's from Sky Island!" Nami said which made Luffy even more excited.

"Woo-hoo! Yes! We have proof that Sky Island exists!" Luffy said with a big grin.

"That's explains why my Voidsents gathered those seashells a while ago." Caius muttered with a ponder when Ventus carefully places the seashell in his gallery pouch.

"There are more?!" Luffy exclaims. "Let's see what they can do!?"

"NO!" The Straw Hats, except Robin, yelled while bonked Luffy in the head.

"After what one of them did, I refuse to have the ladies get hurt because of your curiosity!" Sanji declared.

"And we don't have enough information about those seashells, either." Caius adds sternly.

"And what would happen if one of them can explode?!" Usopp asked in a whimper.

"We would sink!" Chopper answered.

"We would do worse than that." Zoro points out.

"With that said, Luffy, I'm putting those seashells in my gallery pouch." Ventus told him.

"What?!" Luffy exclaims with his jaws dropped, quickly stood up and with a lump on his head. "You can't do that! As Captain, I refuse to-"

"What did I say?!" Ventus snarled angrily with his eyes turned into dragon eyes, making Luffy flinched in fear. "You should think about the consequences if one of these were dangerous enough to destroy this ship or worse! Plus, Caius' Voidsent found these and considering that it's his and mine, we decided that either if it would be useful in the future once we learned about them, or I have to keep them out of sight. Either way, I'll decide what to do with these. You, however, do as you please, but if I ever get a whiff of you try to get a hold of my pouch, I'll be having no problems of killing you on a spot!? Is that clear?!"

Luffy gulped as he nods. Ventus took that as a sign that he get the message loud and clear as he head inside of the deck, carrying the collection of seashells and places them in the gallery pouch. After Ventus finished his task, he went up and noticed Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper chasing after Sanji, who took the food from them. It got him sighed in annoyance as he walk towards the stairs. Zoro and Caius looks up at the sky, wondering if the Sky Island really exists.

"I can't even imagine it, if there really being an island in the sky." Zoro muttered.

"We still have to find out more about this Sky Island, whether it exists or not." Caius said, but then turns to Ventus. "Not confronting them?"

"I'd rather stay out of this circus." Ventus told him. "Besides, we've been sailing for days."

"We've experienced enough to know the answer by now." Robin told them with a smirk, earned their attention. "See, no matter how strange or logical, something may seem to us. Out here, the seas logic can make anything possible."

Nami was looking at the Eternal Pose, which leads to Jaya, she looks at the sea.

'The key to going to Sky Island...is on Jaya.' Nami mentally thought.

That's it for the 15th chapter.

Sorry that I have to skip on Buggy's scene, mostly because I'm focusing on the Straw Hats and he's my least favorite in One Piece, considering that he's a running gag and always got himself into trouble. But, he was about to take down Ace without realizing that he's part of the Whitebeard Pirates and wields a Devil Fruit power. Also, Ace is a man on a mission, looking for Blackbeard.