Strength of a Crew (Book #2)

Chapter 1 Strength of a Whale

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Present time
Entrance of the Grandline, Reverse Mountain
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"Somebody save the tangerine trees" Izumi yelled trying to hold them still so they wouldn't be torn from the ship against the raging water works. They had enter the mountain and were currently sliding to the other side in full speed.

"Someone pull the brakes" Rick shouted.

"No! Let her slide" Shizuo slapped Rick's hands away as he stepped in between Rick and brake.

"But we're going to crash!" Rick tried to reason with Shizuo mostly because he worried for his life and that of this friends.

"Not yet" Shizuo answered taking control of the wheel.

"Hold on to something you idiot" Izumi ordered.

Austin quickly pulled his brother towards him holding tight to the rail of the ship. Sage and Maeve remerged from down below to joined them and were holding on for dear life leaving all control in Shizuo's hands.

"Shizuo up ahead" Al pointed to the moving blue wall stood in their path. The mountain continued tremble with intense force, rocking them side to side.

Shizuo did notice it gripping the wheel tightly as he slow hit the brakes to slow down the ship.

"We're  going to die" Rick squealed.

The blue wall began to move, opening up to revealed layers out large white rocks.

"What is it" Maeve asked.

Shizuo frowned. He couldn't much sense of what was going on as the tides continue to hurled them around. It took as his strength to keep the ship steady so it wouldn't crash against the rocks of the mountain.

"Hold on tight" Ken yelled where he could see a huge wave began to form behind them. The intense pouncing and shaking of the mountain created a large enough wave to hurled them over the white rocks and into a tunnel like shape.

Even with the rough landing they could see blue sky without a cloud in sight. The sea became calmer and easy to sail upon where they found themselves in a quiet and lonely sea without a single trace of life.

"Where are we" Rick asked bewildered.

"The Grandline" Ken answered.

"It's calmer than I thought" Izumi commented.

"Guys this isn't the Grandline" Maeve intervened looking at their surroundings.

"What makes you so sure" Beckett questioned.

"There no birds or much wind here" Maeve responded.

"She's right" Shizuo replied. "Where ever we are it isn't the Grandline"

"Wow it's different then I remembered" Allison said.

"Thats because it's not the Grandline" Izumi said walking up to them, having secured the tangerine trees.

"There a island over there" Austin pointed to their right where a small house was under construction. A couple trees came into core as they sailed towards it and more they came closer they could make out a stocky and muscular man with bald top head but with black hair with a hint of white hairs and yellow flower petal-like things petals around his head.

He wore pink sleeveless shirt with a white and green stripe with yellow circles in the green along with grey shorts with sandals. Outfit completed with glasses, a seaweed necklace, three gold bracelets, and a green-gem bracelet on his left wrist.