Chapter 142: 142- Vivi's first appearance
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"What the hell is happening!?" Makino shouted as she and everyone on board tried to keep their balance on the ship as it rocked against the rough waters.
"It's begun." Crocus said causing Lucy to look at him strangely wondering what has begun.
"LOOK!" Carmen yelled getting everyone's attention as she pointed at the island.
"That's no island, it's some kind of ship!" She yelled as she pointed at the island Crocus was on, causing all of them to look and see at the bottom of the island was made of iron.
"Yeah of course, because we are floating on a sea of gastric acid." Kaya said as she looked over.
"Just what the hell is wrong with this freaky whale, old man!?" Zora yelled at Crocus. Crocus got up from his chair and looked up to the fake sky before he replied.
"it is very angry." Crocus said in a sad tone.
"These aftershocks are a result of it hitting its head against the Red Line." he said surprising the crew except Ethan who had already knows about it.
"That explains why it has so many deep scars on its forehead." Ann said as she held on to the side of the ship.
"But why is the whale doing it?" Clara asked.
"It's because it is suffering." Ethan said as he leaned against the cabin.
"He is most likely trying to kill the whale from the inside out." Nami said causing everyone except for Ethan, Alvida, Clara, Kuina, Zora, and Sanju to take on a look of pure disgust.
"What a despicable thing to do." Ann said.
"Okay we figured out the mystery of the whale, now how about we find a way out of its belly before it digests us." Zora said while looking back at the rest of the crew.
"We have no right to judge the old man nor do we need to save the whale. What we need to do is focus on how to get the hell out of here." Sanju said as she and Zora began walking towards Ethan. Just as Ethan was about to say something Crocus did something that surprised everyone. He jumped into the gastric acid.
"Is he crazy! The acid will eat him alive." Kaya said as she stared into the spot where jumped in.
Ethan looked at Acid and then sighed. "He'll be fine, don't worry about him."
"Ethan we have to get out of here!" Nami yelled.
"We can't." Ethan said causing their eyes to widen.
"The whale is most likely underwater right now, the moment we open those doors we will sink to the bottom of the Grand Line," Ethan said surprising them even more.
"So we just stay in here and die?" Hailey asked.
"the whale has to go up from water sooner or later." he said causing them to relax and nod.
Two minutes later the old man resurfaced next to the two giant doors and began climbing the ladder that was right next to it.
As he was climbing up the ladder the smaller doors that were at the top of the ladder flew open and out stepped two individuals with guns in their hands.
They aimed their guns at Crocus, but before they could shoot, a strong wind pushed them and made them fall into stomach acid.
Everyone then saw Crocus walked through the doors that the man and the woman came out of and disappeared.
"Why did you save him? He's trying to kill the whale?" Nami looked at Ethan strangely.
Ethan: "He's not trying to kill the whale, he's trying to save it."
"For now, save these two people before their stomach acid can digest them." Zora and Sanju jump into the acid and minutes later they pull the man and woman out of the acid.
"We saved you, now can you tell us who you are?" Zora asked as she walked toward the two while everyone else just looked on as the man and woman spoke to each other in hushed tone. Soon everyone noticed that the whale stopped thrashing around and had calmed down causing the sea that was inside of its stomach to calm down as well.
"You parasites are still here!" Crocus yelled from the top of the ladder getting everyone's attention.
"The old guy is back again," Ann said.
"I grow weary of this and for the last time. So long as I draw breath you will not lay a single harmful finger on Laboon!" he yelled from the top of the ladder.
The woman laughed sinisterly and then said, "You might say that, but we won't quit."
'Wow, Vivi looks so evil at this moment.' Ethan smiled as he looked at what was happening.
"Killing this whale is our mission, and this time we won't let you interfere! We're going to make a hole in this whale's stomach!" The man and woman raised their arms and tried to explode the whale's stomach.
At this moment, Ethan stood in front of the cannonballs that were fired and exploded on his body. Seeing this, none of the girls worried, but the man and the woman were shocked and did not know why Ethan did this.
'Is this person an idiot? Or is he trying to commit suicide?' Vivi thought.
After the smoke disappeared, Ethan appeared without any scratches on his body, causing the man and woman to be shocked.
Lucy stood behind the man and woman and punched their heads, causing them to fall to the ground. Then the girls tied the two.
"Old man, we want to get out of here. Can you help us?" Ethan smiled.
"Fine," Crocus said before he dived back into the water and swam over to his boat/island.
"Follow me," he said before the island started to move towards the two giant doors. As the doors opened the two ships began sailing through a canal inside the whale.
"Why does this whale have a canal inside of it?" Alvida asked.
"Call it a doctor's playful mind." Crocus replied.
"It is impossible to treat a whale of this size so I had to come up with a way to work around that." he said causing them to nod their head showing that they understood.
'This is a doctor from the Grand Line, his way of thinking is different from the rest of the natural doctors.' Kaya's eyes flashed at this moment and curiosity started to fill her, "So you're a doctor? I'm also a doctor, can we share our knowledge?"
"You've been of help to me so it's okay to give you some of my knowledge."
As they reached the end of the canal they came upon another set of doors.
When they reached in front of the doors Crocus sailed his boat/island up to it and pulled a lever causing the door to open.
As the door opened everyone was immediately hit by a ray of sunlight causing all of them to smile.
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