【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"It's already morning!" Blackbeard was feeling the pain from the wound on his body and was a little annoyed. He shouted to Badgers who was observing with a telescope in front of him, "How is it? Did you see anything?"

"I can't even see the shadow of the other side!" Bajies kept looking for the traces of the Straw Hat Pirates on the sea with a telescope, and couldn't help but question, "Will they really go to Sky Island?"

"Ah, that's what they said. It will be troublesome once they go up to the sky." Blackbeard frowned and said, enduring the pain in his body, "We have to intercept them before that. Poison.Q! Is there no other medicine to relieve the pain? "

"I can only do this." Poison.Q panted and said, "The vice-captain is really bad for you."

"But I still won, didn't I?" Blackbeard grinned.

"This is fate." Oka raised his sniper rifle and aimed at the seagulls in the distance. "Fate will bring us together again."

……

Under the escort of apes and gorillas, they quickly and successfully arrived at the southern part of Gaya Island. During this time, Chopper treated and treated Lucci's injuries. According to Chopper, he will wake up in a few hours.

"Director! It's bad!" The lookout of the ape team shouted in shock, "Cumulus empire clouds have been spotted in the southwest!!"

"Really? What time is it now?" the ape shouted in shock.

"Ten o'clock! Much earlier than expected!"

"What happened!?" Nami heard what the apes said and walked to the railing and asked hurriedly.

Qi was standing on the observation deck holding a telescope. When he heard Nami's question, he responded, "The apes said that the imperial clouds appeared ahead of time, but we don't even know the location of the ocean currents now!"

"What!?" Nami shouted anxiously. At this moment, the wind direction suddenly changed. The sea water rolled violently and kept hitting the Merry. Huge clouds covered part of the sky, and the sky was suddenly shrouded in darkness.

The sudden violent shaking caused the Straw Hat Pirates to quickly rush out of the cabin "What happened!?"

"The waves suddenly got bigger!" Nami exclaimed.

"The patients in the lounge cannot be hit!" Chopper shouted in panic while steadying himself.

"Robin!" Qi shouted in Robin's direction, "Can you secure the people in the lounge?"

"Yes, sure!" Robin nodded.

She knew how important the patient in the lounge was to their Captain, especially during his treatment. The Captain, who was usually as willful as a child, not only resisted the idea of ​​waiting in the ward this time, but also listened to Chopper's words and waited quietly at the door for several hours with extraordinary determination in order to allow the patient in the room to receive better treatment. It was also at that time that everyone instantly understood how important the person being treated was to their Captain.

"It's a tailwind now! The imperial cumulus is moving towards the center of the vortex!" The ape shouted in surprise, "We have won the jackpot this time! We just need to bring you into the orbit of the vortex!"

“Ahhhhhhhh!!”

Everyone looked in shock at the sea kings being sucked into the huge whirlpool, and instantly realized what was about to happen to them.

"Ahhhhh!!"

"How can there be such a huge whirlpool?!"

"We are going to die!! We are going to die!!"

Usopp, Nami, and Chopper yelled in horror.

"This is the first time I've seen such a big whirlpool..." Robin muttered in shock.

"Don't resist, you must keep going deeper into the center of the vortex!" After the ape and gorilla's ship sent the Merry to the vortex's orbit, they immediately retreated and moved away from the huge vortex. "Goodbye, it's up to you guys from now on, come on!!"

"Well, thank you for sending us here!" Luffy waved goodbye to the gorillas and apes who were getting farther and farther away from them.

"Wait!! Ah!! Let me go back! This is scary!"

Usopp reacted instantly as he watched the ship gradually moving away, and shouted in panic. He regretted it. Could they really survive in such a whirlpool?!

Nami looked at the huge whirlpool in front of her, her mind went blank, and she began to yell in fear at the departing ship, "Why! Why didn't anyone tell me that such a big whirlpool would appear? This is a fraud!!"

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaah!!"

"We were sucked into the whirlpool!!"

"Turn around, Luffy! There's still time!" Usopp whimpered, his body shaking violently, and shouted to Luffy in panic, "Sky Island or something, it's just a dream within a dream!!"

"A dream within a dream..." Luffy muttered to himself, but the smile on his face became bigger and bigger. He didn't care about what Usopp and Nami said at all. He showed an extremely happy smile on his face. He turned around and looked at Nami and Usopp and said happily, "If you miss the adventure of the dream island in the dream, you will regret it for the rest of your life!!"

"So... you look so happy..." Nami gave in as she watched Luffy looking so happy. She finally covered her mouth with tears streaming down her face. "I can't refuse that at all..."

"Hey, while you're putting up a futile resistance..." Zoro pointed forward and grinned, "We're about to be swallowed by the whirlpool!"

“What!? Aaaaaaaahhhh!!” Usopp felt Merry flying towards the center of the vortex at an extremely fast speed, and immediately screamed in fear, “Waaaaaah, I’m going to fall!!”

"Ms. Nami, come and hide in my arms!" Sanji shouted excitedly.

The moment their boat fell into the center of the whirlpool, all the waves subsided.

"What happened? Why did you disappear?"

Everyone said in surprise.

"No..." Nami listened to the voice coming from the bottom of the ship in horror, "The vortex just sank to the bottom of the sea..."

"and many more!!"

Just then a sound suddenly came from the sea behind Merry. Qi turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. A simple raft made of huge wood appeared behind them.

Qi jumped off the observation deck and looked at the man on the raft who was shouting. He asked in confusion, "Who are those guys?" Then he noticed the anger on Luffy's face, "Luffy, do you know them?"

"Thief hahaha!! Straw Hat Boy, I finally caught up with you!!"

"They are the ones who argued with Luffy in Magic Valley Town." Sanji frowned and looked at the burly, bearded man on the raft. "Why are they here?"

"Those are the guys who fought Lucci," Luffy deadpanned.

A guy who could hurt Luffy? Luffy looked at the people on the raft with a vigilant look. Could such a guy actually target Luffy?

"I'm here to take your head, which is worth 100 million!! And hand over Lucci to me obediently!!"

"Is Lucci the person Luffy brought here?" Nami asked puzzledly. Because when Chopper was treating the guy who looked like Qi at the beginning, Luffy and Qi were not in good condition and both looked very worried, so they didn't have the chance to ask about the man's condition. In the end, they decided to wait for Luffy and Qi to tell them.