Chapter 19: Chapter 19
"Luffy hold my hand." Zoro said while holding out his hand as the ship passed through the entrance. Luffy stretched out his hand and took Zoro's hand and returned to the ship.
"We did it." Usopp, and Sanji cheered from within as Nami breathed a sigh of relief.
"Woo-hoo, now straight up shot." Nami cheered taking off her coat after the rain stopped.
"Wow, this is fun." Candice said as the wind hit her face.
"Wow what a view." Luffy said from the front of the ship while looking up. The ship comes up above the clouds.
"This is crazy." Luffy said while sitting on Merry's head. "We are above the clouds." He finished looking at the mountain peak. The ship hit the top, went up in the air, and went down in another canal.
"Hey Yuuji?" Luffy asked as they descended the mountain.
"Yes." Said Yuuji leaning against the wall with Bambietta and Candice beside him.
"You never told us your dreams." Luffy said as Yuuji shrugged his shoulders,
"I really want to go on an adventure, and find that bastard." Yuuji said with a sigh.
"How about you two?" Luffy asked Bambietta and Candice.
"We don't have a dream, the two of us just follow it to the end" Bambietta replied while resting her head on Yuuji's shoulder.
"I saw the Grand Line." Luffy said returning his attention to the front. "One Piece is out there, and I will find it." Luffy exclaimed while laughing. After a while they started to pass through the clouds.
"This is good." Sanji said to the rope on the pole. As everyone cheered, Yuuji, Bambietta, Candiced and Zoro heard groans.
"Hey, did you hear that?" Zoro asked as the Three started looking around. "What." Nami said while looking at Zoro.
"No, I heard that too." Yuuji said seriously. A shadow came through the clouds.
"Hey, I see a mountain ahead." Sanji said looking ahead through the binoculars.
"What should there be no mountains here" shouted Nami.
"Who cares." Luffy exclaimed cheering,
"It's a whale." Yuuji exclaimed seeing a huge blue whale with lots of scars on its head, hearing this, Candice was immediately annoyed, "Ah!! That bastard disturbed my sleep!!" Yuuji tried to calm her down as best he could.
"How do we get past it? When I passed here, the whale was only under the sea" Yuuji asked,
"It's on the left." Zoro said while pointing to the left.
"Go there." Nami shouted as Yuuji ran to the steering column.
"It's broken!" The reply tried to push through what was left.
"Wait I have an idea." Said Luffy running in the door on the lower deck.
"What are you doing?" Nami shouted/asked from above. After trying to turn the ship around without success, they suddenly heard cannon shots.
"Cannon!" Everyone screamed as the Boat suddenly slowed itself down but hit a whale breaking the figure's head.
"We are so messed up." Said Nami while laying down as the figure's head passed her and landed on the deck.
"Aaahh! That's my special seat!" He shouted from inside the room with a cannon. everything was silent for a moment.
"Are you okay?" asked Yuuji slowly helping Nami stand up.
"Yes but why are you whispering?" she asked him,
"I don't think the whale noticed." Yuuji said to her "We might be able to get Merry out of here quietly." He said as the others but Luffy came out.
They all started rowing.
"He doesn't feel that, or he is sluggish." Zoro said as they rowed while the whales groaned loudly.
"Huh, Luffy?" Nami asked seeing Luffy standing in front of her.
"You think you can bust my chair and get away with it." Luffy said seriously to the whale. "TAKE THIS!" he shouted hitting the whales in the eye as they passed him.
"YOU MORONS!" Except for Yuuji and the two girls who laughed, Everyone screamed when Nami hit Luffy on the deck.
"Why do you do that?" Nami asked when Luffy got up.
"He broke my chair." Luffy said while pointing at the whale,
"And you can't wait until we get the Going Merry out before telling the pope we're here?" Nami clenched her fists very annoyed.
The whale groaned and opened its mouth to let in water, and the Going Merry entered. Luffy fell down, stretched out his arms and grabbed his teeth and climbed onto the whale.
"Oh man." Luffy said above the whale panting "Everyone's been eaten." he said standing up. He started hitting the whale.
"Hey, you spit them out." Luffy shouted while continuing to hit the whale.
"Whoa." Luffy said as the whale started to sink. "Hey where are you going?" Luffy asked as he started to step on the whale. "Give me back my friends." he said as the whale continued to sink.
"What's this..?" Luffy asked looking at the door above the whale. He ran there opened it and jumped in.
Inside the Pope.
"Are we still in the whale?" Bambietta asked as she, and everyone looked at..A small island with a house.
"Yes, we did." Candice said looking at the island as well. As they float around the island, liquid comes out of the water. Yuuji, Bambietta, Candice, Sanji, and Zoro prepare to fight, but three spearmen rush out of the house and kill the squid.
"I thought my senses were damaged, but, It looks like there really are people here." Yuuji said as Nami hid behind him crying.
"I don't care, let's go." she said through tears.
"It doesn't matter." Yuuji said while looking around him,
"Where's Luffy?" Usopp asked when Nami got a little excited.
"I hope he's okay, but Yuuji is here." She said as she let go of Yuuji because she felt glares from Bambietta and Candice.
Suddenly they heard footsteps. They turned around and saw an old man looking like a flower with petals around his head, his body rather stocky and muscular, his head bald, but white hair with what looked like flower petals in yellow, it had a purple tint near the bottom, and a white beard. which is split into two parts. The lower lip looks bigger than the top. He wears a pink shirt with yellow and green trim with purple circles on the yellow along with bluish-gray shorts with sandals, he also wears glasses, a seaweed necklace, three gold bracelets, and a green gem bracelet on his left wrist. has a scar on his left arm.
"What's that?" Candice asked, "He looks like a... Flower." Bambietta finished when the old man sat down on a lawn chair reading the newspaper.
"You're going to say something?" Sanji asked when the man started attacking them intensely.
"Hey, we're going to fight, we have cannons." Usopp shouted..From inside the Going Merry.
"Oh yes he's shaking in his shoes now." said Candice sarcastically. The man glared.
"You do and someone will die." He said seriously as Yuuji drew his sword with Nami hiding behind him again, Candice and Bambietta also started drawing their swords.
"Yes who?" Sanji asked when the man was silent for a moment.
"I certainly do." He said plainly as everyone faced the deck.
"ARE YOU KIDDING!?" Sanji shouted at the man. Zoro grabbed Sanji's shoulder.
"Calm." He said with a grin. He looked at the old man.
"There are some things we want to know old man." Zoro said as the man looked at him. "Where are we, and what is your name?" He asked as the man glared at him.
"before asking someone's name, at least introduce yourself first"
"Oh sorry, my name is Roronoa-"
"My name is Crocus, I am 72 years old, my star Gemini." Crocus finished when Zoro tried to pull out the sword.
"I will kill him." He said angrily when Sanji held him back.
"You want to know where you are?" he asked. "I thought it was obvious, considering you got eaten." he said as Usopp looked around seeing the blue sky.
"So we really are inside the whale." He asked as Crocus nodded.
"What is happening right now?" she asked. "I don't want to be eaten." Nami said fearfully as Crocus stared at them for a moment.
"The exit there." He said while pointing at a giant door. "Then fine let me fix the steering column." Yuuji said walking below the deck.
"You're a shipbuilder too?" Zoro asked as Yuuji shook his head.
"No, I learned how to repair ships because when the three of us set sail, I was the only one who could repair ships." He replied by pulling the pole as it was broken and a piece of metal, and a tool.
"Somebody get Merry's little head out of the old one." Yuuji said as Usopp went and pulled him as Yuuji sawed off the broken part leaving a small stump.
"Hey hold this for me Usopp." Yuuji said putting the new cutting into the small stump.
"Okay." Usopp said while holding the stump as Yuuji nailed the stake. "Okay, let go." He said when Usopp removed the pole, Yuuji coiled the metal and nailed it.
"Here he is." Yuuji said after putting his head down.
"It should hold up." Yuuji said throwing the tools down, along with the broken pole.
"Wow it looks like it never broke." Nami commented while Yuuji smirked.
"Like he said, he's not a shipbuilder, but he's good at fixing things." Bambietta said with a chuckle.
"We must quickly sail towards that exit." Zoro said when Nami nodded.
"You're right." Yuuji said as the whale's belly started to shake.
"Hey, look." Nami said while pointing at the island. "It really is a ship." She said looking at the iron base.
"Damn it." Yuuji cursed. "We have to get out of here. Wooden ships won't last long in this acid." He said as Usopp started yelling at Crocus.
"He was very angry." said Crocus, looking up. "He crashed into the Red Line." He said as everyone looked confused.
"That must be why he has the scar on his head." Nami said while holding on to the railing.
"Why?" asked Usopp.
"Because he suffered." Nami said while looking up.
"Is that true?" Yuuji asked "How did you come up with that?" Candice asked as Nami looked at her.
"felling." She said clearly,
"Okay, okay." Yuuji said while shrugging.
"What about that guy?" Usopp asked while looking at Crocus.
"He must be here to kill him." Nami said seriously.
"I'm not sure because of that, there must be something else right?" Yuuji asked with raised eyebrows.
"We have no right to judge him." Sanji said while dragging.
"That's right, what he does is his business after all, not ours." Bambietta said seriously,
"Now let's get out of here." Candice finished with everyone nodding.
'Since when did the two of them become wise?' Yuuji's mind became confused.
As they all rushed to sail out. Crocus dives into the acid.
"The old man just came in." Nami said while pointing at Crocus.
"Is he crazy?" asked Zoro. "The acid will eat him alive." He's done.
luffy.
Luffy after falling into a ditch like sitting area. "Hey, that's weird." He said looking around.
"This whale has a river in it too." he said as the room began to tilt. Luffy screamed and fell.
Meanwhile on the other side of the door stood two men holding guns. One was a thin woman, her blue hair pulled back into a ponytail. Slender in stature, she has long thin legs and arms and large, protruding breasts. Dressed in a brown coat, blue striped sleeveless shirt, brown shorts, and white boots.
The man was a middle-aged man with long red hair topped with a crown, and the number nine written across his cheek. He was wearing a green royal attire along with an ornate red scarf. His clothes made him look like a prince or king.
"Right behind this door, Ms. Wednesday." The man said to Ms. Wednesday The currently identified Wednesday.
"Is the whale belly as well as the old man." She said as Ms. Wednesday.
"That's right Mr. 9." She said to the man. "We need meat to feed our town." She finished when they heard screams. Luffy came running quickly knocking on them and through the door.
Inside Crocus was climbing up the door when three people flew out and fell into the water. "That idiot." Yuuji said while passing his Zanpakutō to Bambietta after which he immediately dived.
After a while Yuuji came out with Luffy on his shoulders. He climbed the stairs and sat Luffy down.
"Thanks Bambietta, Candice." Yuuji said as Candice brought the Towel and Bambietta who handed over his Zanpakutō.
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