Stars Align (One Piece x Reader)

Chapter 22

"It sounds cheery in there." Luffy smiled at the kitchen door after hearing Sanji screaming and choking, having swallowed mold growing on some spoiled food.

"He's probably excited about the sky food, since it's new to him!" Usopp shrugged, not paying attention to the loud conversation going on behind the doors. Y/n walked over to the open balcony, looking over the sea of clouds as the group behind her began to talk about dials.

"Huh? What? It's a seashell." Luffy stated as Conis gave him a dial.

"Yes. Please say something to it." Conis requested.

"Okay. Hm...." Luffy brought the dial up to his mouth, thinking about what he'd say to it. "Y/n is-!" Luffy stopped short as he felt y/n's dark aura behind him. "cool!" He finished with a nervous sweat.

"Hmph, that's what I thought." Y/n muttered, crossing her arms as she leaned her lower back against the railing of the balcony. Conis chuckled and pointed to the tip of the dial.

"Now, please press the apex of that shell."

"What's an apex?" Luffy asked, looking at the dial curiously.

"It's the tip of the shell." Usopp walked up to Luffy, pressing down on the apex.

"Y/n is-!.....Cool!"

"Ah! The shell complimented y/n!!" Luffy held the shell further out and away from him, shocked and confused.

"No, that was your voice!" Usopp exclaimed.

"Woah! That's amazing! It stored sounds?" Zoro chuckled from his place on the puffy cloud couch.

"So that seashell is a dial?" Robin questioned.

"Yes. This is called a Tone Dial. It's a White-White Sea seashell that records and replays sounds." Conis explained.

"But the sea here is bottomless, right? Where do they live?" Zoro asked.

"They live in the reefs of the shallows."

"But I can't believe that this thing can move that waver." Robin furrowed her brows.

"You're right." Conis nodded, grabbing another seashell from a dresser across the room. "This is the kind that powers the wavers." She held it up. "This is a small one, but it's fundamentally the same as the Tone Dials." Walking back over towards Luffy and Usopp, she held the shell over her head, pointing it towards a small talisman hanging from the doorway to the balcony. Pressing on the apex of the shell, the device whirred to life and the talisman fluttered around as air was blown out from the shell.

"Ooh! So wind comes out of this one." Usopp and Luffy looked up at the talisman and shell with awe.

"Let me try it!" Luffy demanded, reaching out for the dial.

"This is the Breath Dial. It lets you store and blow wind as you desire." Conis explained, handing the shell over to Luffy. The rubber man began to swing the dial around, allowing the shell to collect air. He then stopped, turning the opening to his face before pressing the apex. He let out a gasp of surprise as a strong wind hit his face, nearly blowing his straw hat off, had it not been strapped to his neck. "The capacity varies depending on the size of the shell, but by attaching this to the stern, you can move a light boat."

"That's the waver." Robin stated, nodding her head as she now understood.

"I see. So it's moved by blowing wind!" Usopp smiled, standing next to y/n on the balcony, looking out on the white sea, trying to spot Nami.