Queen of the Pirates

Laboon's Tale

"Did I just die?" Nami chokes out. "Was that the end? All we did for us to die?"

"My entire life flashed before my eyes," I gasp for breath.

"My special seat!" Luffy calls out.

A rumbling starts building in the throat of the whale.

"Let's get the hell out of here while we have the chance!" Zoro commands.

"What the hell!?" Sanji yells. "Did it notice the cannon? Is it just that slow?"

"It doesn't matter!" Usopp cries. "This is our chance to run!"

The whale lets out an ear shattering wail, causing me to clamp my hands over my ears in an attempt to drown out the noise. All the yelling from the boys muffled while the whale lets out its frustration.

Luffy steps up to where Nami and I are still on our knees. The anger on his face clear.

"Hey captain," I softly call to him. "Take a moment and-"

"Listen you!" Luffy shouts at the whale. "That was my special seat! What was that for!?" His fist shoots out and slams into the whale's eye.

"You dumbass!" Everyone but me cries out as tears run down their cheeks.

"Calm down," I sigh, finishing my thought from earlier.

"It's looking at us!" Usopp and Nami cry.

"Come on, damn it!" Luffy gets into a fighting stance.

"Shut up!" Usopp and Zoro scream as they kick Luffy in the back of the head.

The whales mouth opens, and he begins to suck the ship in. All of us are going to be swallowed by a giant whale right as we make it to the Grand Line. Our adventure isn't going to be ended by other pirates, but by a whale!

"Luffy!" I scream, reaching over the railing for the boy that has fallen off the ship.

"Don't fall in, Akari," Zoro wraps his arm around my middle, keeping me from falling into the ocean.

"I'm not gonna die!" Luffy shouts. "I will not die to a whale!" His arm stretching to grab onto the top of the whale.

Then it all goes black as the whale closes his mouth and swallows us whole without any problem. Luffy stuck on the outside.

I turn in Zoro's grasp, nuzzling my head into his chest. "Tell me when I'm dead. Just tell me when I am gone."

Zoro chuckles, "I don't think that is going to happen. A whale this huge, and it didn't even chew us. We'll just be stuck inside. A slow death."

I lift my head up to glare up at the swordsman. "That wasn't even funny in the slightest."

"Sorry, sorry," he rubs his hand across the top of my head.

It isn't long before the darkness transitions into light, which is the least shocking thing to happen today. Light inside of a whale? Who would have thought that was possible? The sea inside the creature is calm, even though it is probably swimming around right now. I'm sure that we will be able to survive long enough in here to find a way out.

I sigh, releasing Zoro and turning around to see where we are. "Whoa, look over there, an island," I point to a place not to far away from us.