Two Dreams, One Adventure

Big News and Big Whale

For reference for the rest of the story: Luffy called Garp by his name. They have a very bad history and so Luffy just calls him by his first name. It will into detail about this much later. Big news in this chapter! Enjoy~

After a bit, the mountain came into view. "It's the magic mountain!" he shouted. "It's huge!" They couldn't even see the top of the Red Line because it was so tall, it was hidden by the clouds. Luffy wondered if anybody could live up there. And he wondered if he'd ever be able to slingshot his way up.

"Get a good grip of the rudder so we aren't dragged under," Nami commanded, Usopp and Sanji hurrying inside.

Zoro had the binoculars. "I can't believe it. The water is actually going up." Then he grinned. "Either adventure or death awaits us, huh?" Luffy laughed, so giddy to hurry up and get there. Until Nami told them to move starboard a bit, and then the rudder snapped. Everyone was horrified, but they didn't have time to dwell on it, they had to do something!

"WE'RE GONNA CRASH!"

Luffy acted immediately, jumping off of the ship and inflating his body to cushion between the entrance pillar and the ship, turning it to the side. He started to fall until he grabbed Zoro's hand and was brought back up. And finally, they were going up the mountain, into the amazing sea. Danger and adventure awaited them.

He was beaming. "Our dreams begin now, huh?" Zoro asked, putting his arm around Luffy's shoulders. Luffy nodded, and then his face fell. Now that it seemed the danger was gone, he was feeling the negative feelings of losing that information. Stupid storm. "So what's wrong?"

"Someone put a note in my pocket and I think it could have been important to what I am but I dropped it and it blew away." Those that heard were silent for a bit, even as they headed up the mountain. "Huh?!" they exclaimed. But then they reached the top, and this part was more fun. "I can see the Grand Line!" All of them were screaming or laughing, and then grabbed onto something as they plummeted down.

The Luffy stopped. "Hey, there's something in front of us! Really loud!"

"I can't hear anythin-"

BOUOHHH!

What they could see looked like a mountain, but Luffy thought it was something else. He squinted his eyes and smelled deeply. But it was something unfamiliar, so that didn't help. Then when they got closer, the sound came again, and they saw it was a giant whale. They argued about fighting it, but that wasn't possible.

"We can't die from a whale this early!" Usopp shouted. Luffy didn't know what to do until he heard it moan again, and it was louder than a cannon. He put his hands over his ears, since it was so loud it actually hurt.

"I have an idea!" he shouted, and went below deck to the cannon that was facing out the front, and he shot it, making it stop abruptly. Well, slow, but the figurehead was still broken off by hitting the whale. "My special seat!" He'd barely gotten to use it! He hurried up above, and everyone was rowing as fast as they could. The moans stopped, so he didn't cover his ears anymore.

He was angry. "Hey, you!" he shouted. The whale's eye moved, and it submerged partially. "I'm gonna make you pay!" It submerged fully and it created a whirlpool, dragging the ship inside and under. They barely made it out, and they didn't even need to stuff themselves in barrels. The ship was swirling, making all of them sick.

Luffy fell off, and hit the water, being thrashed around in the whirlpool and dragged under. He couldn't smell or hear, but he saw a black thing nearing him, and it slammed him into the wall of the cliff, making him lose what was left of his air supply. He didn't die, but he felt he would. His devil fruit wasn't working, so he felt that.