Luffy landed on his side while Zoro and Sanji heaved out ragged in takes of breathes. Faythe stood in her Beast mode for a second, before transforming back into her normal form.
She sat on the railings, intaking the crew's reactions.
"Zoro! Sanji!" Usopp called out in utter shock.
Luffy just laid there on his side while Nami smacked him in the head continuously, "Luffy! What's wrong!? Are you dead!?"
"We might need to go now, we're in a rush, guys." Faythe snickered out as Zoro tossed two bags full of treasure to the side, "Lower the sail! We gotta get the hell outta here!"
Sanji dropped his and Faythe's bags next to the main mast, "He means trouble" He muttered to himself, talking about the gorilla man.
Faythe tilted her head at Usopp, "Hey, why wasn't my name called out??"
Usopp only glanced at her and frowned, "I'm sure your fine." he waved off.
"WOWWWW!!" Faythe called out, "Yet you think these three need your worry!?" She pointed at the three people, known as the monster trio.
"Touché." Usopp sighed in defeat, "Anyway I'm glad your alive! WE NEED TO ESCAPE FROM THAT TURTLE ASAP!"
Zoro and Sanji completely disregarded Usopp's concern and began to complain about the gorilla guy.
"Turtle? No, I'm talking about the monkey we ran across underwater!" Zoro pointed at him sternly.
Sanji raised his hands up tiredly, "He must be some queer type of underwater creature."
"He was getting along with Luffy for a moment, "Zoro added.
"'Cause they're both monkeys." Sanji rebutted.
"Ha! Must be long distant cousins of some sort." Faythe called out as she shook off some dust, while going through the bags full of old armor.
Zoro nodded and continued, "But once he saw the goods we collected from the wreckage, he went berserk!"
"Like a mad gorilla!" Sanji face palmed himself exhausted.
Faythe perked up, "That's what I've been saying!" She threw her arms up.
Nami patted the red head on the shoulder, "That'd be Mashira, the salvager! But I'm surprised how you managed to escape the turtle's mouth."
Faythe raised a brow at this, "Turtle? What turtle?"
Usopp was looking at something with a calculated look, almost observing, "Hm? Something's up with that turtle. It's mouth is hanging open... No wonder you guys managed to get outta there..."
Sanji, Faythe, and Zoro turned to see what the hell Usopp and the rest were talking about but froze at the massive creature that loomed over them in size.
"WHOA! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?" They said in unison.
Usopp got annoyed at they're naivety, "NOW you notice!? YOU WERE SWALLOWED WHOLE BY IT WITH THE SHIP JUST NOW!"
Faythe crossed her arms, analyzing the Sea King. It looked just like a over sized turtle with sharp teeth. It's beady eyes paled and looked ghostly vivid. It's shade of grey looked eerily purplish in the dark night that surrounded them, "Wow. Since when?"
"Like almost 10 minutes ago!" Usopp barked and gently smacked the girl's head.
Luffy shot up from his side, taking in a breathe, "Pfahh!" He looked around, then up to the sky which wasn't it's bright blue daylight anymore, "Huh? Why's it night all of a sudden?"
Zoro grabbed hold of the main mast's sails, tugging down the ropes, "Luffy! Help us get the sail down!"
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! YOU LOW-LIVES!"
Faythe whipped her head around, only too see the gorilla man shoot out the sea like a fuckin torpedo, "What the hell..." She laughed nervously.
Mashira, the gorilla man, landed on the rails of the ship with a quaking shake to the ship. He raised his large fists to the sky in pure rage, "YOU THINK YOU CAN WALTZ RIGHT INTO MY TERRITORY, STEAL MY TREASURES, AND JUST GET AWAY WITH IT!?"
It was silent for a moment until Faythe spoke up, "Uhhh.. Ya."
"Treasure!? You found treasure!?" Nami clasped her hands together as she beamed at Luffy and Faythe excitedly.
Luffy just grinned and gave his usual giddy side show, "Hee hee! Found a whole bunch!"
Zoro's whole attention was on Mashira instead of the treasure, "This is bad, we can't let him go berserk on our deck...!" he was in the middle of unsheathing until Faythe pressed her palm on his hand, stopping him.
"What?" Zoro raised a brow, but Faythe was looking at Mashria's crew grow weary and driven with fear as they call out to their boss.
Faythe's sharp eyes then whipped towards the sea, "Something's not right."
"B.. B... Boss! W-W-W... Watch out!" Some of the monkey pirates called out in sheer fright.
Everyone turned their heads to where the moneky crew pointed and were beyond astonished. If you were to ask Faythe what she was expecting, she would've replied at that moment:
"The sight that was presented in front of me that day, would forever be ingrained in my mind. Why? Because it defies anything but a typical being."
In front of the people stood about five colossal beings, that stood almost fifty times the size of the massive turtle sea king. Even if Faythe couldn't identify they're faces, she almost make the shape of winged shaped objects on they're backs and largely made spear that could fit they're respected sizes. Her eyes had grown the size of saucers as she gazed upon the giant beings loom over them all. In the dead of night that encased them, the giants could almost take the shape of a shadow.
"MOOOONNSTEEEERRSS!"
Everyone started screaming at the top of their lungs as they came back to reality. The crew was on high gear as they turned the mast and whipped out the paddles. The going merry made a quick escape far from the looming shadows and out to the open air of daylight.
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The crew were all now lounging down, taking a break as they could no longer see dark skies.
"I can't believe it..."
"Huff... Huff..."
"Yeah... Can't believe how huge those things were..." Faythe muttered out loud. She was leaning in her spot on the rails, a leg dangling loosely and dangerously close to the sea.
Sanji nodded in agreement, lighting up another cigarette, "...Today's been one hell of a strange day."
Zoro sat crisscrossed, his swords sitting next to him on the deck, "A huge galleon drops down from the sky..."
Nami sat a couple of feet next to Robin, leaning her back against the rails and her knees close to her chest, "The log pose started pointing up..."
"And then some weird monkey shows up to salvage the ship." Usopp sighed out exhausted, sitting with his legs spread out next to the cabin door.
"But a huuuuuge turtle swallowed the sunken ship whole..." Chopper was sitting next to Luffy, leaning on the main mast.
Robin leaned her head into her right palm, "Day became night..."
"And finally, those monsters, tens of times larger than giants appeared!" Luffy gasped out dumbfounded.
"Yeah... That last bit sure gave me a scare..." Mashira nodded in agreement as he remembered the recent event.
Everyone let out a sigh in sync and waited for it to sink in.
"GET THE HELL OFF!" Zoro, Luffy, Faythe, and Sanji simultaneously upper kicked the gorilla man into the sky.
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"...Man, those monsters sure were big."
"Yeah.. Never want to see 'em again..."
Usopp leaned over the rails, focusing out at the sea, "Y'know Chopper..."
"Hm?" Chopper dangled from the rails while he glanced at the sniper.
"If I got just a lil' serious, I can take care of monsters like them. Piece of cake." Usopp smiled relaxed.
"Really!?" Chopper jolted in shock.
"Sure, I took out ten of 'em before."
"TEN!?"
Faythe was sitting next to Robin, continuing to write about her experiences in the galleon and underwater.
Robin just smiled and watched the red head scrawl across the paper with her feathered quill.
"For god's sake..." The two ladies turned their attention to see Nami standing over the emptied bags of old relics, "WHY DO YOU THINK YOU EVEN WENT UNDERWATER IN THE FIRST PLACE!?"
As far as Faythe could see, there was rusted armor, dingy swords, and mostly old and cracked vases, along with shattered utensils.
"LOOK AT ALL THIS JUNK! NOT A SINGLE CLUE ON HOW TO GET TO THE SKY!"
Zoro was already getting annoyed, "I told you already, there weren't any clues down there!"
"He's telling the truth, Nami." Sanji confirmed with his arms crossed, "The ship was clearly attacked by some enemy in the past. Or if not, then some sort of violent clash broke out amongst the crew."
"Then that's all the more reason for us to find out information!" She then pointed a finger sternly at them, "Listen! Whatever happened to that ship, might also happen to us if we really try to go up to the sky!"
Robin and Faythe glanced at each other before letting out worried chuckles for the boys.
Nami placed both hands on her hips and then started kicking at the dingy objects piled together, "'INFO!' ....Is what'll decide if we live or die! Not this rusty sword, plate, or some octopus! WE NEED JOURNALS! SEA CHARTS! THOSE SORTS OF THINGS!"
Zoro and Sanji were panicking over the shattering swords and plates that were kicked by Nami's heels, "AGHHH!"
Nami then shifted her target to Luffy who was marching around in a dirty full set of armor, "Oh, what's that, Luffy?"
"ARMOR!" He said without hesitation.
In a matter of seconds, Luffy was on the ground, beaten up along with his shatter suit of armor.
Zoro looked at his Captain in disbelief, "AHH! YOU DESTROYED THE SUIT OF ARMOR!"
Sanji's mile trailed after Nami as she walked up the stairs near the other woman, "Nami, I brought a lovely seashell for you!"
"I DON'T WANT IT, YOU IDIOT!" Nami snapped at the naïve blonde.
Letting out a sigh, Faythe closed her journal with many pages sticking out a bit. Robin crossed her legs in a fememine manner and leaned her into her palm.
"You seem frustrated..." Robin observed.
Nami let out a distressed sigh, venting out her irritation, "Oh, the real frustration will be from hereon!"
Faythe muffled a giggle that wanted to erupt, "Y-Ya? That sounds crrraaaazzzy.."
Nami gave the red head a short pointed glare before continuing, "Surrounded by idiots, honestly! Now we have absolutely no way of finding land!"
Robin pulled out what looked like an eternal log pose from her blouse, "Here..." She handed it over to the navigator with a wink.
Nami shifted the object in her hand a little surprised, "Ah- An eternal log pose!?"
"So I was right." Faythe raised a brow.
Robin smiled at the ladies' reactions, "I nicked it from the ship of those monkeys earlier."
"Instead of kicking the poor junk, you could just wait and try to sell them somewhere, I'm sure it'll range from 2,000 to 10,000 belis." Faythe snickered while doing the cash sign.
Nami started sniffling and then looked up at the two woman as if they were fallen angels, "You two are my only allies, Fae, Robin...!"
Faythe had opened up her arms, which Nami had quickly submitted herself in the red head's embrace. Robin just laughed worriedly, "You look like you've been through some hardship..."
"HEY! IS THE TAKOYAKI DONE YET!" Luffy called out, rushing off for the food.
"'Jaya'." Nami read the eternal log pose.
Luffy situated himself to lean over the rails to the upper deck, "Jaya? Is that where we're goin'?" He took a toothpick and jabbed at one of the takoyaki, stuffing about three in his mouth. Faythe turned into her parrot form and landed on her Captain's shoulder.
"THAT'S FOR YOU TO DECIDE!" Nami snapped at him.
"ALRIGHT! SET COURSE FOR JAYA!" Luffy shot up excited, accidently throwing his plate of takoyaki. Fortunately, Faythe had transformed back into her human form and caught the plate easily, while sitting back on the rails with her legs crossed.
"SET SAIL FOR JAYA!" Faythe laughed out with a takoyaki in her mouth.
It was quiet for a minute before Luffy asked a very helpful question, "Nami, which way is it?"
Nami sighed and waved her hand dismissively, "Just keep the rudder steady at the middle.
"Chopper, can you help me?" Usopp muttered as he strolled over to the rudder.
"Ok." He hopped down from the upper deck.
"FULL SPEED AHEAD FOR JAYA!" Luffy once again shouted.
"FULL SPEED!" Faythe tossed a piece of his food over to him, which he actually caught with his mouth.
"Ahh! Hold on a moment!" Usopp paused in mid chew, "If we go to this Jaya island... Then won't our current log get rewritten there...?" He shot up from his spot next to Chopper, "And then we wouldn't be able to go to sky island...!"
"WHA!" Chopper then just realized that.
Luffy crossed his hands in a 'X' formation in front of his face, "SET NO SAIL FOR JAYA!"
"NO JAYA!" Faythe mimicked Luffy's gesture.
Luffy went marching towards Nami with a large frown, "NAMI! WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA!"
Nami placed her hands on her hips, "What, you're the one who decided to sail for Jaya."
"Ah- You're right! But I didn't think this would happen!"
"Well, that's your fault. The log pose always get's re-written at every island. That's how it's been from the start."
"Ah- You're right!"
Faythe patted Luffy on the back, "It's okay Cap', here have some more takoyaki." She plopped one in his mouth, then taking one from his plate and started munching as well.
Luffy's attention was still looking at Nami annoyed, "Well listen up then! As the captain, I get to decide where the ship goes! And I saw the ship goes to sky island!"
Nami shrugged, "Fine, but how?"
"Well, we gotta ask around, right?" Faythe glanced at Usopp.
"Mhm." he nodded.
Luffy smiled, "Makes sense. Let's go ask around in Jaya then."
Nami turned around and headed towards the cabin, "Then let's head to Jaya."
Luffy took the plate from Faythe's hands and held it up to the sky, "SET SAIL FOR JAYA!"
"TO JAYA!"
Usopp instantly smacked both idiots in the head, "WAIT, YOU IDIOTS! WE WENT IN A CIRCLE!"
Robin had then stepped down from the upper deck and joined the conversation, "The log pose won't get re-written as soon as we arrive there. We can just leave Jaya before the log gets re-written."
Faythe, Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper's voices were muffled by they're chewing, "Yeah, that sounds good..." They said in unision.
Nami looked at Robin seriously as she spoke, "We'll need a bit of luck though..."
Faythe began laughing and pulled on Luffy's arm, "Don't worry Nami, I think we a so much luck with a captain like this...!" She smiled brightly.
Nami sighed and let out a snicker, "You may be right about that one, Fae."
"ALRIGHT, THEN! TO THE COUNTRY OF MEAT, JAYA!" Luffy hollered.
The rest of the idiots cheered along side him, "YEAH!!!"
"Stop dreaming." Nami hissed, getting irritated.
Sanji came spinning out of the kitchen with three plates, "Nami! Robin! Faythe! The special ladies-only takoyaki is served!"
Both ladies glanced at the red head who was quickly wiping her mouth of any evidence of eating earlier.
"SHHHH! I was hungry..!" She whispered yelled to the girls who she grabbed, trotting over to Sanji. Nami snickered along with Robin giving a slight chuckle.
And so for the time being. The ship is now headed for the mysterious island of Jaya.
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A/N: Now for the current votes! I making sure that you can only vote once! that way it's fair!
Luffy - 11
Zoro - 9
Sanji - 2
Usopp- 0
Nami - 2
Robin - 1
Vivi - 2
Luffy is in the lead! surprisingly with Zoro close behind! And Usopp with none whatsoever! hAhAhAHAahaAH- Anyways! I was surprised to see so many people participate!
The voting will continue until the last chapter in Skypiea arc!
So if you haven't voted yet, now's the time!
Just to calm some of the worries about the voting, it's just for fun, it won't change who she ends up in the end, I already have that set. The voting is just to see who gets to have a ship drawing with Faythe at the end of this book.