Standing side by side, Zoro, Sanji, Faythe, and Luffy were covered in these barrels with a little window on the front for them to see through. For the Devil fruit eaters who were Luffy and Faythe, they were placed in two barrels to cover their body. But for Zoro and Sanji they just had one to supply them air for their upper bdoy.
Luffy was looking down at his attire and glancing at Faythe's with a bit of awe, "Heh heh... I gotta say.. This is some crazy stuff you're pressing us into.."
Faythe was frowning at how containing it was, "This sounded fun at first but now I don't like how restraining it feels.."
Zoro wasn't even in the mood to comment how dumb they looked because he was in the same situation.
Sanji on the other hand was fawning over Nami. Again, "I promise I'll find some clues on how to go to the sky, Nami!"
"Thanks, I'll leave it to you!" Nami gave him a flirtatious grin.
Usopp was busy admiring his work, "Dive down with no worries, lads! My design is flawless!"
With that they hopped right off the railings with a rope attached to the top of their outfits.
Nami called out to them one last time, "Good luck, all of you!"
Faythe was the first to look down and the first thought that ran through her head was.
'Oh crap...'
Below them were multiple sea snakes.
Faythe glanced over at the other three and saw they had her same expression. She looked to her side and saw a speaker connecting to the ship.
"This is Chopper. Respond if you can hear me, over."
Luffy was the first to respond, "This is Luffy. There's a lot of monsters down here, over."
Then Zoro, "What is this, a giant sea snake lair!?"
"This is Sanji. AGHHH! IT LOOKED THIS WAY!" Faythe had watched Sanji swim quickly away with a giant sea snake eyeing him from the distance.
She let out a small giggle before responding, "This is Faythe, I think we are in a bit of peril at the moment but we are going strong! Over."
She heard Nami speak next, "They're A-OK, Chopper."
"A-OK!?" Usopp shouted at Nami after listening to their responses.
The four crewmembers who were quickly descending upon the sunken galleon, were either focusing on what could be down there or was preoccupied with a octopus. Which was Faythe laughing at Zoro try and tug the octopus off his window.
After that little skit, the four crewmates finally land and touch ground.
Looking above them, Faythe let out a gasp at the view from underwater, it was illuminating, almost full of dazzling colors of cyan and the darkest of blues. The sunlight shining down on the water only made the surface water sparkle from underneath. It was truly a sight to behold. Faythe smiled to herself as she skipped lightly over to the ship. It felt like the gravity around them was never a thing as she floated over.
Faythe was looking around in the galleon seeing a familiar room, the water making her a bit skittish, but it wasn't containing her in a way. Shaking her head slightly, she opened up a few chests and pulled out some books. The color from the pages were dampening and were very dainty in the water.
"Tch. All the books are useless..." Faythe muttered, then throwing the book aside she moved over to some hung scrolls that seemed incased in some glass container.
She rubbed the old dust that seemed to get soggy and turn to algae. Now getting a good look at the parchment, she allowed her eyes to read the fancy writing carefully.
"Seek the heavens and it's desired wishes, and it shall seek your desired sins.. For it will be a warning from the gods who rule it. Gold breeds greed. Greed breeds envy. Envy breeds jealousy. Jealously breeds anger. Anger brings along wrathful revenge, no matter how it ends."
Faythe narrowed her eyes at the parchment, "What the fuck is that supposed to mean?"
She shrugged to herself and walked out the room, but not before stealing another glance at the glass container.
'Gods, huh?'
Meeting up with the other three boys, they were all inside another room with multiple skeletons inside. None that could ever be up to par with 'Mr. Brook', though.
Luffy tapped on both Faythe and Zoro's barrels and pointed silently at the rusted and old chest further in the room. The three watched Zoro open it and pull out a single bird feather. The crew mates all frowned and then looked at Faythe with questioning gazes.
"AYO! I DON'T HAVE ANY WHITE FEATHERS!" Faythe shouting in her ear piece.
Luffy only laughed with Zoro as he held back a grin.
A sudden sharp hook like piece that was twice the size of Faythe tore through the walls of the room. The crewmates were immediately alerted. The floor was now shaking at a nerving balance. Faythe felt herself start rising in the water but was confused, "Wait... It's not us that's moving..."
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?" Luffy shouted out.
"SOMETHING'S DRAGGING THE SHIP UP!" Faythe called out as held onto the bookshelf that was nearby. She leaned against the the wall and glanced out the window to see what was pulling them and sucked in her breathe, "Uh guys!? We got some company!"
The trio of boys whipped their head towards her and looked out the window to see a dozen of men in these large underwater outfits.
"We can't even get a break today..." Sanji grumbled.
"These guys..." Luffy huffed and crossed his arms as the tank-like people were slowly swimming towards the ship.
Faythe had hid to the side of the opening in the ship and leaned her back closely to the wall. As one of them got close to the opening, Faythe grabbed the man's helmet and slammed it down on the ground, "GAHHHH!"
This gained almost all of his other companions.
Zoro and Sanji had leaped forward and wiped them all out quickly.
Faythe was weirdly moving her arms around, making Luffy attention shift to her, "Whatchu doin'?"
"I don't know, but I feel a little faster now.."
"Really??" Luffy then began to move his arms around as well, "Ah, your right!"
"Do you think we're still in water?" Faythe asked slowly.
Luffy looked at the side for a moment and then shrugged, "Let's find out!" He then began to take off the barrels.
"AH! Luffy!" Sanji called out as he looked at the boy.
"Oi! What are you doin!?" Zoro started panicking at his Captain, but Faythe was just analyzing how Luffy reacted to the water around him as he took off the bottom barrel for his legs. After seeing nothing happen to him, she concluded that it was okay to do so.
"Nothings happening to Luffy." Faythe stated as she was now taking off the barrel suit.
Zoro and Sanji watched them closely as they were now fully out of their suits. They both glance at each other and shrug with heavy sighs, now taking off their own.
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While they were all breathing actual oxygen, they continued chatting even though they kept feeling the ship around them shake or shudder.
Luffy sat on his barrel suit crouched, "See! We can take off our barrels now!"
Zoro threw his suit towards the corner, "Never imagined so much air could be pumped down here... But I wonder who's trying to lift the ship back up..."
"Zoro, you do know that the squid from earlier is still attached to your shoulder." Faythe snickered as she pointed at the pink creature.
Zoro glanced at his shoulder and shrugged, either not caring or gave up trying.
"Forget the octopus! You don't think Nami and Robin are hurt, do you!?" Sanji questioned worriedly.
"What do you mean?" Faythe turned her head to the blonde.
Sanji crossed his arms and let out a sigh, "They haven't responded to any of our calls for a while now!"
As soon as he finished his sentence, the wall next to them was suddenly destroyed. The rotten planks went scattering across the room.
"WHO THE HELL'S GOING AROUND CAUSING TROUBLE ON MY TURF!?"
There stood a a very tall built man with spiky red hair. He wore some golden sun glasses and white rimmed headphones on his head. His face resembled for of a monkey in Faythe's opinion as he had these splotches of blush on both his cheeks. Now that Faythe looked at him, he was more of a gorilla with that build. But none other, he looked pissed.
Luffy could only stare and comment blankly, "Ah- It's a monkey."
The gorilla fellow stopped in his tracks and looked at Luffy happily, "Huh? You think I really look like a monkey?"
Luffy paused and glanced back at his three friends, "Look like? What, he ain't a monkey?"
Zoro rolled his eyes, "Don't ask me."
"I thought he looked more like those bigger monkeys, a gorilla." Faythe snapped her finger.
"Ohhhh.. Your right now that I keep staring at em'." Luffy placed a finger on his chin as he narrowed his eyes at the monkey man.
Sanji stuffed His hands in his pockets, "Who're you?"
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As Luffy and the monkey man started chatting away, they were totally ignoring the fact that the torn down galleon was shaking a lot for some reason.
Faythe nudged Zoro in the side to get his attention. Zoro glanced down at her while he finally unlatched the strange octopus off his head.
"What?" Narrowing his eyes at her, he watched as she pointed discreetly at the bags that carried mounts of random stuff.
"We gotta get outta here..." she mouthed silently.
Zoro did a discreet nod and silently grabbed his bag along with her's.
Faythe slowly tip toed over to Sanji who was frowning at the conversation that was transpiring before him. He felt a tap on his shoulder and glanced over to see Faythe and all her beauty.
"Faythe-Chan~!" Sanji fawned over her, but was quickly silenced as Faythe had silently placed a finger on his lips.
"Quiet!" Faythe narrowed her eyes at the gorilla figure still chatting with Luffy. Letting out a sigh, she glanced over at Zoro who was tiptoeing out of the room, then back at Sanji who was just admiring Faythe's serious face, "Listen. We're gonna gather all of the stuff we required from here and quickly ditch this place while Luffy is distracting his kin."
Sanji quietly nodded his head, with her finger still placed on his lips.
Faythe's bright cyan eyes met with his baby blue ones, "When I grab hold of Luffy, that's the sign to dip. Got it?"
Sanji dazedly nodded when she released him. He watched as she slid herself close to Luffy's own bag and let out a very loud cough at the same time she kicked the bag over to him. He almost let out a snicker if they weren't supposed to be quiet. Taking the bag over his shoulder, he walked out the room with his head peeking out of the door frame.
Faythe had situated herself next to Luffy, a fake smile adorning her face, "Hey, Can I ask you something, Mr. Gorilla Man?"
The well built fellow glanced up at her with a award winning smile- at least what he believes is one, "Yes, Miss Red?"
'Miss Red??'
Shaking her head at the thought, she cleared her throat and asked, "How would you feel if somebody stole from this ship?"
A sudden furious vein had throbbed on the gorilla's head and jaw, "Steal! Steal things in my territory!? They would pay greatly for it!" A dark, intimidating aura had surrounded the man at the preposterous question. But his face did a 180 and switched to a lovely bright smile as he saw the nervous face she made, "Why do you ask?"
Faythe smiled and giggled lightly as she stood behind Luffy's who had situated himself on a barrel from their suit. Placing her hands on both his shoulder she leaned down to his ear level, "Cap' We're gonna have to make a run for it." She whispered quietly. Luffy for some reason could feel his ears burning.
Luffy didn't even bother to move his head but only glanced at her, meeting her bright eyes which twinkled in a bit mischief. His brows furrowed a bit as he only grew confused, "What do you mean by that-"
He was suddenly pulled up from his spot and was being rushed out the room.
Faythe was smiling the whole time at the gorilla man, "Terribly sorry for interrupting your salvaging but, it's best if he get on our way now. It was great meeting you!" She smiled a waved goodbye.
"Ah! You too! It was nice meeting you guys too!" He smiled happily at them and waved.
As soon as they made it out of the room and down the hall, they caught up to Sanji and Zoro who were already at the end of the hallways and saw a giant hole that led out of the broken galleon.
"Hey, Fae? Why were you in such a rush to leave-" Luffy didn't even get to finish his sentence when the wall behind them was busted down by the same gorilla man with the most pissed off face he had ever seen.
"YOU DARE STEAL FROM MY TERRITORY AND TRICKING ME BY ACTING BUDDY BUDDY WITH ME!?" He roared and posed for a moment.
Faythe laughed nervously and pointed at the raging gorilla, "That's why." She hurriedly tugged on Luffy's hand and ran towards the two other crew mates in a desperate manner, "Go! Go! Go!!"
They all took a leap of faith as they jumped out of the galleon. They all quickly noticed that they weren't in fact underwater anymore but in the air. So either they laughed or screamed at the strange change of scenery didn't matter as Faythe had instantly gazed out all her feathers.
"Bird Transformation: Beast Form!"
As she had quickly transformed in a spiral of feathers, the other three men stared in awe at the creature before them. The different array of colors were now very visible due to the large powerful wings that spread out.
"Is that-!" Zoro spluttered in surprise.
Sanji's cigarette fell out of his mouth at the sight, "Faythe-Chan!?"
Luffy had stars in his eyes at the transformation, "COOL! A BIGGER BIRD!" He spread his arms out excitedly in the air.
Faythe had quickly swooped down and grabbed hold of Luffy's shirt with her beak and her front talons capturing Sanji and Zoro in them. Soaring through the air, she spotted the ship nearby and quickly landed.
She had tossed Luffy first, then dropped the other two as they landed with all the salvaged things.
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A|N: I'm terribly sorry for the late updating because of studying I had to do for some exams!