One Piece (Love Story) [Part One]

Chapter One Hundred and Thirteen [Rewritten]

-Chapter One Hundred and Thirteen-

"Quite a successful adventure" Pagaya happily answered, holding up a bundle of fish he had got. "I have an idea, you should all come over for dinner—we'll fill your bellies with the taste of the island" he suggested, already politely inviting us all over for dinner despite having just met us.

"I'm all for that, I'm starving" Luffy grinned.

"That sounds lovely" I smiled as already I could feel the way my stomach was starting to lowly growl at the prospect of food.

"Sky Island cuisine? Do you mind if I help you prepare it?" Sanji curiously asked.

"No" Pagaya shook his head, not minding at all in allowing the blond to accompany him in preparing the meal.

"Before we go, I have a question" Nami quickly piped up. "This boat, it doesn't have any sails to catch the wind and you weren't rowing it either, so how does it propel through the water?" she asked, still curiously examining the Sky Waver that Pagaya had been sailing.

"Oh, of course, your people aren't familiar with dials—are they?" Conis asked.

"Dials?" I questioned.

"What are dials?" Luffy asked. Exchanging glances, Pagaya and Conis seemingly felt that the best way to answer him was to allow him a chance to ride the Sky Waver to help give him a better understanding of how it functioned.

"Look at him go" I whistled the second Luffy started the waver and immediately shot off at an incredible speed—going so fast that the boat just tore right through the clouds as if it was nothing.

"I want to stop!" he frantically cried before finally losing his balance as the waver inevitably crashed and flung him right off.

"Oh no!" Conis gasped, hands flying up to cover her mouth as she winced upon witnessing the captain getting thrown into the ocean. "I hope he's alright" she worriedly voiced.

"It's all my fault, I shouldn't have let a rookie use the waver..." Pagaya guiltily muttered, shaking his head as already was he quick to take the blame for the rubber man's misfortune.

"Did he forget the fact that he can't swim?" I sweat dropped. "I know we're up in the clouds, but an ocean is still an ocean."

"Then I hope this sea is more buoyant than ours" Sanji said, not at all concerned about our captain.

"Maybe" Zoro shrugged as Chopper began to frantically look around at everyone as if expecting one of us to dive right in and save our captain. "I think it's safe, we're floating in the air, so then you're probably right—he can handle it" the swordsman hummed, already quick to reason with himself why we shouldn't be worried about Luffy drowning.

"Huh, he sank" Sanji remarked as the rubber man began to violently splash around before finally, he went completely under.

"Huh, it's not the first time I've been wrong" Zoro shrugged, seemingly indifferent to the situation at hand—not the least bothered at all that our captain was currently drowning.

"I'll save you!" Chopper worriedly cried out as he jumped right into the cloudy water without a second thought.

"Wait, Chopper! You can't swim either!" I shouted, watching as the others heaved tired sighs before finally Zoro and Usopp went right in after the two.

"That was close" Sanji said when Zoro finally dragged a soaking wet Luffy back on shore.

"Close? You were standing on the beach—what do you know about close?!" Zoro irritably snapped. "Oh yeah, thanks for the help by the way!" he growled in slight frustration before huffing as he glared down at the rubber man who seemed to be in a daze after his near-death experience.