One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda
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OCs belong to me.
-Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Five-
"That's an understatement—how'd you end up here?" Nami asked.
"I don't know, I just got stuck here and I can't get out" Luffy admitted with another loud sniff as if distraught that he still hadn't found an exit.
"Incredible, what is the chance that each of us was swallowed?" Nami asked, amazed by this sudden turn of events. "This snake's turning out to be a serious problem" she huffed.
"It was a problem before it swallowed us" I frowned, recalling how much of a nuisance the snake had been earlier during the fight with Wyper and Ohm.
"Huh? What do you mean swallowed?" Luffy frowned. "A snake?" he tilted his head, not quite following along with what the ginger was saying.
"Who do you think this stomach belongs to?" Nami asked.
"But how could you be here talking to me if you were swallowed by a giant snake?" Luffy blinked, still not following along.
"Luffy, sweetie, no" I said. Surely he couldn't be this dense.
"Like I said, a big old reptile with long white fangs—it ate us and now we're stuck in its belly!" Nami frowned, already getting annoyed with the rubber man as she harshly grabbed hold of his nose and pulled it out to a certain distance before finally letting go.
"Ow! Come on, Nami—that hurts!" Luffy snapped before laughing once he took one look at his stretched-out nose. "Hi, I'm Usopp" I snorted as he turned to me and did his best impression of the sharpshooter before his nose finally snapped back into place and went back to normal.
"You're such a dork" I smiled, shaking my head as he laughed.
"Is he...uh...a jester?" Aisa questioned, warily eyeing the captain.
"That job would suit him best..." Nami irritably grumbled as she crossed her arms and huffed.
"But he's actually our captain" I happily chirped, correcting the young girl in her assumption.
"He's your captain? My word, what's this world coming to?" Gan Fall asked, dumbfounded by this sudden revelation.
"Yeah, that's pretty much the reaction everyone has" Nami sighed.
"He's not that bad, just a little silly is all" I chuckled.
"You sure are calm for someone who's been eaten by a monster" Aisa suddenly pointed out.
"Wait a minute—I thought Nami was only joking!" Luffy shouted at the realization that we really were trapped inside the belly of a snake. "You mean we're being eaten by a snake?!" he cried out in a panic.
"Took you long enough" I sighed, crossing my arms before huffing a small smile.
"I've been trying to tell you—its stomach acid is melting your clothes!" Nami snapped as she pointed out Luffy's rugged appearance and the holes that had been eaten into his clothing.
"Whoa! You're right!" he gasped as if he had only just now noticed his disheveled appearance. "What are we waiting for? We need to find its butthole right away!" he urgently shouted.
"Couldn't we use its mouth or any other opening besides that one?!" I snapped, recoiling in disgust at such a suggestion.
"Ridiculous!" Gan Fall scoffed in bafflement.
"Despicable!" Nami snapped, slapping the raven-haired man across the face—disgusted with his idea of an escape plan just as much as the rest of us.
"Why? We could get out next time the snake goes to the bathroom" Luffy frowned in confusion, not quite understanding why we were so heavily against his idea.
"No! I'd rather get digested!" Nami sneered as she punched him this time.
"Have to agree with her on that one" I shivered, shaking my head at the captain's idea.
"Nami's scary!" Aisa whimpered, backing away as she hide behind me in fear of the enraged ginger.
"You can say that again..." I mumbled, resting a hand atop the child's head as I winced at the violence currently being inflicted upon the rubber man.
"I know what you mean, child—she's meaner than the snake" Gan Fall agreed.
"Hardly, when the snake gets in a bad mood it starts eating people" Nami irritably huffed before sighing in defeat as she slumped her shoulders. "And speaking of which, we better think fast—its temper was bad enough on the outside" she reminded us.
"Wait, the snake was in a bad mood?" Luffy asked.
"Yeah, right—all hisses and fangs" Nami nodded. "In fact, before it attacked us, it was withering around in pain" she suddenly remembered.
"Oh yeah, it did look like it was in agony earlier" I said, recalling how the snake squirmed around during the fight in discomfort as it irritably shot off this and that way before eventually lashing out at whatever was closest to it or happened to bring it even more pain.
"Hm, that's weird—I wonder what was bothering it?" Luffy pondered as I turned and looked at him, silently putting two and two together the longer I thought about how long Luffy's been inside here and what exactly he might have been doing in his attempts to escape.
"Luffy?" I calmly asked.
"Hm?" he hummed as if to let me know he was listening.
"Please tell me you didn't do what I think you did while you were in here all alone" I pleaded as Nami slowly started to come to the same realization as me.
"Huh?" he blinked, brows furrowing in confusion as he tilted his head as if he didn't quite understand what I was saying.
"Luffy...what have you been doing in here?" Nami hesitantly asked, not really looking like she wanted to know the answer.
"Oh! I was trying to burst through a wall—didn't work though!" Luffy laughed, sounding as if he had just told the funniest joke he knew instead of confirming mine and the ginger's fears.
"Ah, so this is all your doing" Gan Fall realized.
"Why am I not surprised?" I groaned, pinching the bridge of my nose in irritation as I shook my head.
"Throwing all those punches burned up a lot of energy—say, did any of you bring some food?" Luffy asked, not realizing what was so wrong with what he had said as Nami and I now clenched our fists in utter frustration. "What's wrong?" he asked when he did finally take note of our anger.
"How about you eat my fist?!" we snapped as we punched him—sending his body flying before it painfully slammed into the side of the snake's stomach which in return caused the large reptile to growl and start withering around in pain to the point that it made the inside of its stomach shake and rumble. Aisa clutched onto Nami as more screams were ripped from our throats the minute we were thrown further down into the creature's belly. Each scream varied in pitch, but one of them was soon cut short when a piece of debris suddenly slammed into Luffy's face while Nami's own frightened screams grew in pitch the second a skeleton landed on top of her. Gan Fall seemed to be the only rational one out of us, keeping his mouth firmly shut as his main priority was to wrap Aisa up in his arms and take the full force of the brute damage caused by the falling debris that rained down on us and would occasionally hit us.
"Oof!" I moaned as I felt the painful sting of a large chunk of debris smashing into the back of my skull. For a minute, I felt a bit woozy after that as my head drooped and black dots clouded my vision. Sluggishly bringing a hand up to the back of my head, I hissed at the sharp sting that shot through my skull the minute I touch the tender spot that had been struck as my fingers became wet with blood the minute I brushed them over the stricken area.
"Ah! It's a dead end—we're going to die!" Nami fearfully cried the second she looked down and saw nothing more than a pile of debris.
"Gum Gum Balloon!" Luffy inflated his body right as he hit the debris and bounced right off of it before hitting the ground—grunting as we bounced off his inflated stomach. "Okay, this mystery cave is getting really annoying" he angrily huffed as he finally released all the air in his stomach.
"I told you, this isn't a cave—we're in the snake's stomach!" Nami snapped from wherever she was.
"Where are you?" Luffy asked, now looking for the navigator before screaming in fear the second he spotted the remains of a skeleton that just so happened to be dressed in feminine clothes that looked eerily similar to Nami's. "Nami, are you okay? Talk to me, Nami!" he frantically begged.
"Who's your new friend, Luffy? They're looking a little thin there" I weakly joked as I massaged the back of my aching head.
"I'm right here, you idiot!" Nami snapped the minute she spotted our captain roughly shaking the skeletal remains and making their bones rattle. Strutting towards him, she brought her fist down on the top of his skull and forced him to let the skeleton go so that he was no longer disrespecting the dead.
"Let me go please, you're squeezing me to death!" Aisa sharply gasped as she weakly began to smack her hands against Gan Fall's armored chest in an attempt to get him to release her.
"I'm glad to see that you're unharmed" Gan Fall sweetly smiled.
"Let go!" Aisa only hissed as she quickly wiggled her way out of his grasp and stood upright on her own two feet.
"What are you doing, Aisa? Stop it!" Nami worriedly gasped the second the young girl picked up the old man's spear and threateningly pointed it at him.
"He's our enemy—he's responsible for ruefully taking away the Shandorians' homeland!" Aisa frowned. "So now, I'm going to take his head!" she snarled.
"I don't get it, how is taking the head of the Sky Knight going to fix anything?" Nami questioned.
"It's not going to fix a damn thing, revenge doesn't always solve the problem at hand—it won't get you your land back nor will it magically erase all the pain your people have suffered" I frowned, not really understanding the child's logic—at most, killing the man who was responsible for her people's suffering would only make her feel better temporarily.
"He's not just a knight, he was the leader of the Skypieans before Eneru showed up! The Skypieans were the ones that drove all of us Shandorians out of our homes!" Aisa angrily explained through gritted teeth.
"The Shandorians were driven out of their homes four hundred years ago!" Nami argued. "So there's no way he had anything to do with it!" she tried to reason with the young girl, not believing that the man could have still been alive that long ago.
"She's right, the man you're looking for is probably already long dead by this point" I nodded.
"If taking my head would satisfy your people, I would gladly sacrifice it" Gan Fall suddenly spoke up, catching us all off guard. "Unfortunately, just my head wouldn't be enough—the level of hostility between the Shandorians and the Skypieans hasn't changed and with good reason, our ancestors took your homeland away. What a horrifying thing to do to you, I don't think I'll ever be able to find a way to apologize for that" he confessed, his gaze becoming downcast as if he couldn't find the strength to really look the child right in the eyes. "I alone will not heal this wound, therefore, I regret my helplessness in the situation—if possible, I would like to apologize to the Shandorians who have spent the last four hundred years searching for their homes. I would like to apologize to them all, one by one, I am truly sorry" he apologized.
"Listen to him, he's been trying to make sure everyone's trying to get along—he wants the citizens to live peacefully in the sky" Nami smiled. "So you really shouldn't—"
"We'll never be able to get along and live peacefully! Not with the bad guys!" Aisa screamed as tears started to well up in her eyes.
"That's just it, they're not bad" Nami argued. "What's bad is when people can't coexist because they belong to different races, right?" she asked.
"Killing doesn't solve anything—do you think you'll feel better? That everything will turn out alright in the end if you kill him?" I quietly asked as her tiny body started to tremble while her tears began to flow. "Do you think mindlessly killing him just because he belongs to a race of people who wronged you will solve all your problems?"
"Aisa..." Nami sadly smiled at the wailing child before releasing a startled gasp when she suddenly brought the spear down toward the old man...only for it to instantly be stopped by Luffy grabbing hold of it.
"Why did you stop me, idiot?!" Aisa angrily cried.
A/N: Enjoy
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