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Bold is for Attacks.
Steve's POV
We sailed through the storm in the direction of the Grand Line. The sea was rough and choppy due to the wind. Nami, Luffy and I were outside. Luffy was sitting on the figure head like usually, despite the raging winds.
"Luffy get down from there if you fall in there's no way we'll get you out." I tried to get Luffy to come down so he wouldn't get hurt but he kept saying I was trying to steal his spot.
"You two come inside we have something to discuss" Nami said walking towards the kitchen.
We followed Nami inside and took a seat at the table. Nami laid down her map and pointed to a spot on it.
"The entrance to the Grand Line is a mountain" Nami explained much to everyone's shocke.
"A Ship can't climb a mountain, even if there was a river up it." Usopp said.
"But if that's what the map says. Besides Nami's never wrong." Sanji defended the girl.
"She stole that map from Buggy, who knows if we can trust it." Zoro added "Why even go that way when we can just sail into the Grand Line from the side.
"No we can't!" "We have to use the cool entrance!" Nami and Luffy yelled out respectively.
"Hey it's nice out, the storms gone." Rose said looking out the window.
We all took a walk outside to find that the storm was gone.
How odd.
"Oh Crap! We're in the Calm Belt!" Nami screamed unexpectedly "Grab the oars and start rowing!"
"But it's so nice here can't we stay." Rose pouted.
Nami explained that the Grand Line was surrounded by two belts in which there is never any wind. The whole ship abruptly shook and a dozen sea kings surfaced from the ocean floor. Most of us were freaked out and Rose was on the ground crying in fear.
"Make the big things go away" She whispered to herself.
Rose has a pretty bad case of Megalophobia, the fear of giant things specifically animals or creatures. While Rose continued crying against the mast the rest of us broke out the oars.
"When that thing dives back under, row like you've never rowed before." I instructed.
The king whose nose we were currently sitting on began taking in air at a fast rate. The thing sneezed and blew of right off him.
"Usopp's falling!" someone pointed out in the commotion.
Luffy stretched out an arm and grabbed the stunned long nose, stopping him from being food for a frog like sea king. After recovering Usopp we got blown all the way back to the storm. Nami explained that was why we had to use the other entrance. She also explained how due to sea currents the Mountain could be traversed.
"So it's a magic mountain?" Luffy and Rose asked.
We sailed for a few more minutes before we got close enough to see the Red Line, the thing was covered in so many clouds you couldn't see the top, you couldn't see the bottom either because of the waves hitting the side.
"There it is, our ticket to the Grand Line, a waterway up a mountain." I cheered out loud.
"Turn the rudder starboard" Nami instructed Sanji and Usopp who were steering. *SNAP*
No.
The rudder snapped in two preventing us from making any turns. We were now headed straight for a wall with no way to turn.
Luffy threw me his hat and jumped overboard. "Gum-Gum Balloon!" Luffy got between the wall and the ship to correct its course, but as a result began to fall towards the water. Luffy grabbed onto Zoro's hand to pull himself back onboard.
We're alive
"We did it!" We all cheered as we sailed up the mountain.
We hit the top and turned to go down the mountain. We rushed down the mountain at lightning speed.
"I can see it, The Grand Line." Luffy yelled.
"This is it, the greatest sea in the world." I smiled.
"There's a mountain ahead." Sanji yelled out from his spot on the mast.
As we got closer, we saw that it wasn't a mountain but a whale. A huge whale with a forehead covered in scars.
"Zoro save me!" Rose began cowering behind Zoro.
"What do we do we fight it?" Zoro asked
"The things so big we can probably just sail around it and avoid confrontation." I yelled back.
"Where gonna ram it we're going too fast and the rudder is stuck!"
*BOOM*
Luffy fired off the cannon causing the ship to slow down.
"What were you thinking!" I yelled out.
The figurehead snapped off when we bumped into the whale, enraging Luffy.
"That was my seat!"
"Now's our chance let's go!" I said grabbing an oar and rowing.
The whale roared but we kept rowing. Luffy had other ideas.
"You destroyed my seat!" Luffy yelled as he punched whale in the eye.
Why the fuck would you do that?!
"You idiot it saw us!"
"Come at me!" Luffy yelled at the whale.
"Shut up!" Rose and Zoro kicked Luffy.
The whale opened its mouth and sucked in water, pulling the ship inside its body. Luffy fell off the boat and towards the water before I could grab him. The water rushed us down further into the whale, until we got pushed all the way to what I believe was the stomach.
Where's Luffy?
When things finally settled down we looked around where we were. There was an island inside the whale!
"Is this some kind of dream?" Usopp asked.
"This must be heaven." Rose added "these even a house for us to stay in. Now we can spend eternity together Zoro."
A giant squid burst out from underwater and went to attack us. Rose fell to the floor again from fear and Nami and Usopp were screaming. The three harpoons suddenly shot through the squid, killing it.
"There's someone there." Zoro said
He and Sanji got ready to fight our potential enemy.
"Maybe we should open fire?" Usopp quivered in fear.
"Wait someone's coming out." I looked towards the house and saw a shadow.
An old man with flower like hair stepped out of the house and stared me down. We stayed still for looking at each other for a while.
"SAY SOMETHING!" Sanji screamed.
"We have a canon and we're not afraid to use it." Usopp said trying to act tough.
The old man looked at us "Don't think about it, someone might end up dead."
"And who might that be?" Zoro asked acting cocky.
"Me"
"Oh come on!" Zoro yelled back
"Relax, hey old man your mind telling us who you are and where we are?" I asked calming Zoro.
"It's polite to introduce you self-first." The man said.
"Okay I'm…"
"My name is Crocus. I'm a seventy-one-year-old lighthouse keeper."
"NOBODY CARES IF I KILL THIS GUY RIGHT!" I yelled in frustration.
"It should be obvious where you are, you were swallowed by the whale." Crocus explained.
"Are we gonna die in here?" Roes and Usopp cried.
"Exit's right over there." Crocus pointed to a door inside the whale.
"There's a door?!"
The water started shaking allowing us to see that Crocus island ship had an iron bottom.
"So he's started bashing his head again?" the old man said to himself.
"Now that I remember the whale was covered in scars." Nami said to herself.
"But what does it all mean?" Usopp asked.
"It means he's suffering." Nami responded "He's trying to kill the whale from the inside."
"Who cares we need to go before the ship falls apart!" Rose yelled.
"Both us and Luffy are in danger, we have to leave!" I commanded "He didn't make it inside but I saw him in the mouth."
Usopp said the old man jumped into the water but we had more important things to do. Zoro and Sanji grabbed the oars so we could row our way out.
A door at the top of the whale opened up and three people fell out, one of them was Luffy.
"You guys are all right. Mind helping me out?!" Luffy screamed as he plunged into the water.
We pulled Luffy out of the water and he brought the other two people with him. The two people a woman and a man looked terrified of us.
"I won't let you lay a finger on Laboon!" The old man appeared on a platform inside the whale.
Our two new guests picked up guns and fired at the whale. The old man jumped in the line of fire and took the blast himself to protect the whale. The two began gloating about taking the whale for food.
Luffy walked up behind the two and knocked them out cold "Don't know what's going on but you two should be quite."
After everything settled down we docked on the old man's ship. Where he explained that the two people Luffy had knocked out were trying to kill the whale for food. He also explained that it was an island whale that had come here with a pirate crew who, upon completing their journey across the Grand Line would return for him. But they never came back for the poor thing.
"It's been fifty years and Laboon still waits." Crocus explained.
We would later get the whole story outside where Crocus would tell us that the pirates who left Laboon here had abandoned the Grand Line.
Rose's POV
Crocus led us out of the whale through a canal. He told us he had made these tunnels to better treat Laboon. He admitted to have at one point been a ship's doctor but when Steve and Luffy asked him to maybe join us he swiftly denied saying he was too old for such things. The old man opened the gate to let us back out to sea.
"What do we do with these two?" I asked Steve.
"Just throw them overboard." He shrugged.
I obliged and dropped the two into the water.
Luffy was playing with something he found on the ground and the rest of us were listening to Crocus tell us about the whale while Nami plotted our course.
Suddenly Luffy returned to the ship and grabbed the mast and broke it running up the whale, when he got to the top he shoved the mast into the animal.
"What are you doing!" I yelled as the whale slammed into Luffy and drove him into the ground.
Luffy stood up unscathed and punched the whale in the eye. Then stopped the fight when the whale went to attack him again.
"It's a tie. Since we don't know who won, when I get back from my trip around the Grand Line I'll come back and fight you again" Luffy said making a promise to the whale.
The whale roared in agreement. Luffy took out some paint and drew his mark on the whale's head to symbolize their pact
"You'll have to stop slamming your head into that rock though or the paint will get rubbed off okay." Luffy smiled.
Stupid…always acting out.
Steve's POV
The others went their separate ways while Nami plotted our course. I was sitting around with Luffy waiting to start sailing.
"The compass is broken!" Nami yelled out.
"It's not broken it just won't work here." Crocus explained stuff about magnetic fields and minerals making traditional compasses useless.
He told us we would need a device called a Logpose.
"Does it look like this?" Luffy asked holding up a watch like device.
"That's it." Crocus confirmed.
Crocus explained that there were multiple paths to the end of the Grand Line that you chose based on magnetism. Luffy said he didn't care which path we picked, if it was boring we could just start over.
Nami took the tool and began to calibrate it when Sanji and Luffy got into an argument over food. Sanji kicked Luffy across the rocks sending him flying past Nami. The force of the wind was so strong it shattered the fragile Logpose. Nami kicked Luffy and Sanji into the water.
I dove in after Luffy to make sure he didn't drown "I'm coming."
I pulled Luffy out of the water with Sanji's help and when we got back to the cape Nami had somehow obtained another Logpose. The two people Rose had throw over board also pulled themselves onto the cape. Sanji helped the women out and left me Luffy and the man to help ourselves.
"We need a ride." The women asked us "Please do us a favor." She added bowing.
"Whatever I don't care." I spoke
"Sure you can come!" Luffy let them on.
We all climbed aboard The Merry ready to sail with our guests. Crocus saw us off and said his goodbyes. Even the whale roared at us to say his goodbye.
We're going to our first stop on the Grand Line. Whisky Peak.
AN
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