Two Dreams, One Adventure

Unexpected Arrival

They came back to attention when Sanji said he saw the deep water current. Luffy ran to the Sunny's head and was excited to see the mystery current. The one he wasn't paying attention to, so it really was a mystery. As long as his navigator knew how it worked, it would be fine! But he thing was like a huge hole! And it was dark on the bottom!

Franky said the ship could handle it, but Luffy wondered if the bubble could. "Nami, can the bubble survive that?!" Luffy asked.

"Rayleigh did a great job, and no ships would make it to the New World if the bubbles couldn't handle a strong current like that!" Nami said. Through the bubble, they could hear the sound of the strong current. They would go plummeting down in a few seconds. Luffy hung onto the figurehead and watched.

The tied up guest said they needed to turn back now.

"I forgot you were here," Zoro said.

"A monster lives down there!"

"Ooooh, a monster?! I wanna tame it!" Luffy called. The monster was the kraken, a huge octopus much larger than the ship. It could even wrap around the Moby dick, Ace's crew's old ship. "Neehee! We'll have a pet monster soon!" Luffy cheered. The others screamed at its size and told him to do it now. "I gotta get closer. I need to make eye contact to tame it, not just scare it off!"

"No, scare it off!" Usopp and Chopper shouted, holding one another. Nami said she thought Usopp got stronger. "You're freaked out, too, you know!" The guy on their ship kept complaining and wanting them to go back. "Oh shut up already!" Nami snapped.

"Nami-san and so beautiful when she is firm! Firm..." and he had another nosebleed.

"Oh, for fucks sake!" Zoro said in complete irritation and annoyance. Luffy could understand how he felt. But Sanji's island life must have been bad. Maybe surrounded by new kamas, and old kama's was bad? What was bad about them? He wondered but didn't ask, waiting to get close to the kraken so Luffy could defeat the beast in his own way.

They trusted that Luffy could take the beast, even though there were tons of wrecked ships all around it. No doubt it had been responsible for much of the ships that never made it to the underwater island. "This is a bad idea," Nami said. "It's huge! Why would it be tamed by you!?"

"Neehee, I'm a monster too, you know? I spent my island time with huge, scary beasts that I tamed! Then I got sea kings around the island to do tricks for me! I'm good with animals now," Luffy bragged confidently. "Just a little closer!"

They noticed a ship coming from behind them. The one with the sea cow that was beaten up badly. He really seemed like he was easy to submit to others. But before the ship could get too close, the kraken decimated it with a strong tentacle, killing everyone of the guy's crew. It was shocking. "See, it's a terrible idea!"

"My crew!"

The floating bodies were said to look like jelly fish to him. The kraken started going after the Sunny, and Luffy used haki the moment they locked eyes. Then he poured out a scary aura that he mixed with the haki to truly tame it. It didn't attack them, and just stayed still, looking at Luffy wish wide eyes.

"Kraken, be our friend!" Luffy cheered. "I won't hurt you!" he called, truth in his voice. Well, unless it hurt them. When it didn't react, Nami begged to use the coup de burst, but Franky said it used up a ton of air. The bubble would shrink significantly. "C'mon, don't be like that!" Luffy said happily when it didn't react to him. But it finally did and blinked before it swung a tentacle at them, which his crew attacked. "Stop it!" Luffy ordered. "He's already our friend!" he insisted. They were all not so sure, and ready to fight until two tentacles gently grabbed the ship on either side, not crushing it or applying any pressure.