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19.29% One Piece: Dream of Immortality / Chapter 99: Flying Fish Riders

บท 99: Flying Fish Riders

"You know Hatchin? Are you friends?" Camie asked wit a curious smile and a tilt of the head.

"Ah, well... um..." Nami felt awkward now. "We're not friends. When Hachi was in Arlong's crew, he helped him hurt a lot of people I care about."

"What?" Camie was becoming despondent. "S-so you won't help him?"

"No, we won't help that guy." Zoro spoke plainly.

"A-alright. I'll just have to save him by myself!" Camie slapped her face and hopped over to the edge of the ship and jumped overboard.

*CHOMP*

Then a sea king swallowed her whole before she hit the water.

"""AHHHHH! SHE GOT EATEN AGAIN!""" They shouted.

After a quick rescue operation, Camie was back on the deck of the ship in a depressed mood.

"I'm useless. I can't even swim in the ocean let alone save Hatchin..." Camie said with tears threatening the edges of her eyes.

"I guess there's nothing for it. We'll save Hachi. At least he never personally harmed anyone in my hometown, even if he supported Arlong." Nami sighed.

Camie leapt onto Nami with a hug and streams of tears sprayed out of her eyes like water hoses. "THANK YOUUUU!"

Since Nami agreed, no one else had any objections to saving Hachi from the slavers.

Camie called out to the ocean and spoke with a school of fish who came to the surface.

"They'll lead halfway to the Flying Fish Riders' base. They won't go any further though, because they're scary." Camie explained.

"Oh, mermaids can talk to fish? Sort of like how Chopper can talk to land animals, though I suppose he IS a land animal. Yohohoho!" Brook said.

They followed the fish for a while, but suddenly the fish scattered. Soon the reason became apparent when they saw a few men riding some sort of flying fish.

"It seems they intend to do hit and run tactics to attack us." Cherry observed. "Cabernet, teach them who rules the sky."

A sudden gust of wind battered against them and Cabernet had vanished.

*Splash Splash Splash*

The three Flying Fish Riders plunged into the ocean. The flying fish themselves were unharmed and ran away back to where they came, abandoning their riders.

The crew fished the unconscious riders out of the ocean. Cabernet was already back on the ship.

Once they were tied up, Cherry taps each one on the forehead in succession. They slowly came to consciousness and groggily looked around.

"Wake up, sunshine." Cherry lightly slapped the cheek of the one who had had the den den mushi.

"MmmMMm?!" The poor man was awfully confused as he tried to speak through his gag. One moment he was about to capture some pirates for a sweet payday and the next he was the one who was caught!

*Purururu*

The den den mushi rang. Cherry answered it.

"Come back to base. Let the Straw Hats come to us." A voice said through the den den mushi.

"We're coming alright, but your boys will be staying with us." Cherry answered.

"Who is this?" The voice asked.

"Harpin D. Cherry, along with the Straw Hat pirates. You'll give us the octopus fishman and we'll let your boys live, how does that sound?" Cherry asked nonchalantly.

"What?! W-well, if you kill them I'll just kill the fishman!" The voice spoke without much confidence.

"Okay, then. If that's how you want to do it." Cherry hung up the receiver.

"AHHHH! He's going to kill Hatchin?!" Camie panicked instantly.

*Purururu*

Cherry answered it.

"DON'T DO IT! I WON'T KILL THE FISHMAN, I PROMISE!" The man screamed through the den den mushi.

"Oh, you changed your mind? Alright, let's do the exchange instead then." Cherry said calmly.

"F-fine, just hurry up! I don't have all day!" The man on the other end hung up this time.

Camie let out a deep breath in relief.

They pressed onwards and soon saw their destination on the horizon. It was a stone dock built in a shallow portion of the ocean in a crescent moon shape with a number of wooden buildings with straw rooves.

As they got closer, a cage could be seen suspended over the water containing the ink soaked figure of Hachi. No one else could be seen on the structure.

"There are three fishmen in the water and a few dozen more people riding those flying fish deeper down. There's one person hiding amongst the buildings with a large animal as well." Cherry naturally found them all easily.

"I'm over here, Camie! Don't worry I'm okay!" Hachi said.

"Hatchin why are you all black, did you get burned?" Camie exclaimed.

"Maybe they were roasting him for lunch." Robin commented, to Camie's increasing horror.

"No, this is... nevermind that! This is a trap, you have to get away from here!" Hachi warned.

"No! I'm going to save you!" Camie tried to jump into the water, but was caught by Cabernet.

"They're waiting in the water, remember Camie-chin?" Cabernet explained patiently.

"AH! I forgot..." Camie stuck her tongue out and tapped her head with her knuckles.

A warbling sound of flying sword slashes rang out from Cherry towards Hachi's cage.

"AHHHH?!" Hachi saw his whole life flash before his eyes.

The cage and the ropes binding Hachi was cut away without leaving a scratch on him, and he plopped into the water free from his bindings.

Cherry saw that the ambushers below started to move, so she and Cabernet threw their three hostages in different directions into the ocean. Still bound by ropes and gags, they naturally wouldn't be able to swim.

As expected, a few of the flying fish riders broke off from the main group to save their comrades whilst the rest rushed upwards to fight.

The three fishmen were quickly taken care of by Hachi, then the battle started in earnest.

It was very chaotic as there were quite a few of the flying fish riders, but they didn't stand a chance against these battle harden pirates.

At some point Luffy fell from high in the air into the building with the lone man and animal. He came running back out with the man riding the animal on his tail.

The Flying Fish Riders' leader, Iron Mask Duval, started to rant about getting his long awaited revenge against Sanji, but annoyingly didn't elaborate on how Sanji had wronged him.

Luffy eventually got fed up with it and kicked his helmet off, revealing his face. Shock and surprise washed over the Straw Hats. His face looked just like the terrible artist rendition of Sanji's face on his wanted poster. Now it all made sense, he'd been falsely attributed to Sanji's crimes.

"Wow, Sanji. Why didn't you tell me you had an identical twin brother?" Cherry asked, keeping a straight face.

"Geh!" Her words pierced into him like a thousand swords. Immediately he jumped into action, kicking Duval across the face.

"Did you even consider all the easy ways to change your appearance?! Like a different hair style?!" Sanji shouted annoyed.

"Oh, yeah I guess I could have!" Duval was enlightened, but he didn't care. He just wanted revenge.

The battle raged on once more. Franky unveiled another weapon of the Thousand Sunny, the Gaon Cannon that was hidden in the figurehead's mouth, which shattered the buildings in front of the ship and knocked out many of the flying fish riders.

Sanji got caught in an iron net, but he tore the net apart with a haki coated kick. Then he finished off the battle by kicking Duval in the face repeatedly and at a progressively faster rate. Finally Duval collapsed the the ground unconscious.

They all got back on the ship once everything calmed down and followed Camie's directions to reach the Sabaody Archipelago, where they would be able to start the descent to Fishman Island.


next chapter

บท 100: Celestial Dragon

Hachi made takoyaki for the crew as a thank you for saving Camie, Pappag, and himself.

Cherry was hesitant to try it, as it conjured images of tentacled horrors she had witnessed in her last life, none of which were even remotely appetizing. Once she relented, she found that it was actually quite nice, though.

Their meal was interrupted when the flying fish riders caught up to them. Cherry seriously considered teaching them a more permanent lesson before they revealed that their intentions were not bad, but rather that Duval wanted to thank Sanji for making him 'handsome', thus turning his life's prospects around for the better.

The newly named 'Rosy Life Riders' went on their merry way after promising to repay their debt in some way in the future.

While they were eating, the method by which one would go to Fishman Island was explained to them.

The Sabaody Archipelago apparently produced a unique kind of resin that formed large floating bubbles. This resin could be applied to a ship in a particular way to protect it from the pressure of the water in the ocean's depths, as well as keep in air for its crew to breathe.

"I presume we need to hire someone to do this resin coating method, then?" Cherry asked.

"Right. Not to worry though, I know of someone who is both very good at his craft and very trustworthy." Hachi said.

"Totally not setting us up for a watery grave, right?" Cherry asked.

"N-no! I wouldn't do that to anyone, certainly not people who have saved my life!" Hachi denied adamantly, much to Cherry's amusement.

Soon they arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago, which was in actuality a cluster of enormous mangrove trees. There was no actual land, rather the people here lived on top of the roots of the trees.

After inspecting the soapy bubbles that formed before their very eyes, they formed into groups.

Hachi, Cherry, Luffy, Nami, Chopper, Brook, Robin, Camie, and Pappag were in the group to go find the resin coating expert for the Thousand Sunny.

Zoro tried to go off on his own, saying he couldn't possibly lose his way when the trees were marked with numbers. Cherry still insisted that Cabernet go with him, as she could just directly drag Zoro to Cherry if they got lost.

The remaining people, namely Sanji, Usopp, Serene, Franky, and Merry, stayed on the ship to guard it and the treasure on board.

"Now I need to warn you guys about something important." Hachi explained. "If we see any World Nobles, also called Celestial Dragons, then you mustn't go against them! It's better if you try not to stand out in any way! No matter what!"

"Sure, sure, whatever." Luffy replied nonchalantly, only half paying attention.

Cherry patted Hachi on the shoulder. "You're going to have to be more specific. Those of us with functioning brains can infer the danger you're warning us about, but goofballs like Luffy need it spelled out for them. Otherwise, he might just do whatever he feels in the moment."

"Oh, right." Hachi couldn't say he knew Luffy super well, but he knew what Cherry was saying was absolutely the case just based on what little he knew about him.

"If you were to harm a World Noble in any way, an Admiral from marine headquarters would be sent directly here to deal with you!" Hachi explained.

"Ehhh?! Like Aokiji?!" This time the message got through to Luffy's pea brain properly.

They visited a vender that rented and sold a contraption that combined with the bubbles to form a vehicle of sorts. They rented a couple of personal sized ones and a larger one. Hachi later explained that buying one was a scam, as the bubbles could only exist in the unique atmosphere of the Sabaody Archipelago or Fishman Island.

Nami, Robin, and Cherry split of from the others to go to a shopping mall. Although Cherry had no interest whatsoever in shopping, she wouldn't miss a chance to spend time with Robin. She would soon regret that decision.

"Be careful and stay lowkey, guys. I can sense some really strong people around here, so don't cause any trouble!" Cherry warned.

Inside the shopping mall, Robin and Nami suddenly picked cherry up by the arms and quickly brought her to a n expensive looking boutique. A feeling a tremendous dread overcame her.

"I've changed my mind! I want to go have a look at the resin coating guy instead!" Cherry squirmed, but Robin only bloomed a multitude of arms to restrain her further. "Nooooo!"

Half an hour later, Cherry was exhausted. She had been toyed with like a dress up doll, and the worst part? She looked good in everything. Such is the curse of being a world shaking beauty.

Cherry was currently wearing a frilly black dress with pink highlights with a matching fancy hat.

"Thank you, it was very fun dressing you up." Robin embraced her.

"Well... as long as you're happy." Cherry grumbled.

...

Zoro was wandering randomly around the archipelago whilst Cabernet followed him around like a puppy.

Cabernet had found a way to convert her wings into sail fabric so that they looked like a giant scarf wrapped around her and she had turned off her flames. It wouldn't prevent anyone from recognizing her, but it would at least make a bit harder. Mainly it was to limit the possibility that a World Noble would see her unique traits and try to enslave her.

Some sort of commotion was happening up ahead. Cabernet observed with curiousity, whilst Zoro didn't seem to even notice anything was happening.

*Bang*

A gunshot was heard followed by a woman's scream. Cabernet saw that an exceptionally ugly man wearing a glass fish bowl on his head had shot a man.

"You murderer, how could you! Someone please, help him!" The woman cried out, but when the ugly man turned to her, she clapped her hands over her mouth.

'Why is no one doing anything? Is this one of the World Nobles? Hm, he doesn't seem to be very noble though, nor does he look like a dragon...' Cabernet thought with her brow furrowed.

There were some pirates with 100 million plus bounties present as well.

"Is that 'Pirate Hunter' Zoro and 'Blood Wine' Cabernet? I heard she blew up a whole city in alabasta..." Asked a pirate behind a man with instruments integrated into his body.

"They're just casually walking down the street, do they not know anything?" Wondered a gangster looking man.

"Shit, look at her face! She's going to kill the Celestial Dragon!" A pink haired woman muttered with growing horror. Of course, that was just how Cabernet looked most of the time.

As Zoro kept walking towards the World Noble absent mindedly, Cabernet suddenly veered into the crowd of pirate and blended in with them. Racked with indecision, she decided to just let Zoro decide what to do, though she didn't realize how bad that idea was.

The pirates present let out a sigh of relief seeing the woman with a 275 million Beri bounty back out. They still had to do some about Zoro though.

When the World Noble noticed Zoro walking towards him, he panicked and fired his gun at Zoro, which was easily dodged. As Zoro went in for the attack, he was tackled by a pink haired little girl who put on an act that he'd been shot and killed.

The World Noble was as stupid as he was ugly, so he easily believed the act and lost interest. He wandered off with his new 'bride' and everyone finally relaxed.

"Why'd you stop me?!" Zoro complained.

"What do you mean?! You nearly got us all killed! Did you WANT an admiral to come down on top of our heads?!" The pinked haired woman reprimanded him. "And you, Blood Wine Cabernet, why in the world didn't you stop him yourself?!"

Cabernet looked down sheepishly at the rebuke. She spoke softly. "I'm sorry..."

The pirates present felt their hearts quake in their chests. 'How can she seem so cute?!'

Ultimately the worst case scenario was avoided, so the pirates went their separate ways.

Zoro and Cabernet went to find a doctor for the man who had been shot.


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