Chapter 18: Departure from Fishman Island! We're Finally Here, New World!

Colour Spread: Film Z Preview!-A poster with red for the background, red yellow and black for clothes and white for bodies is depicted using only those exact colours. The Strawhats in their battle gear are fighting the Neo Marines, with Sanji fighting Binz, Zoro fighting Ain, and Luffy fighting Z. Ellix is mainly shadowed, though half of his body is uncovered to show him with heavy bruises and dried blood on his face. He is facing down a shadowed giant of a man who looks like he has two tanks strapped to his back, whilst a crimson red aura hangs heavily about him, and two red eyes flash in the darkness...

...Well...guess what? Luffy...our dear...THOUGHTFUL...captain...has gotten us into a conflict with the Yonko BIG MUM! And over SWEETS no less! HOW!? We haven't even entered the New World yet, and already Luffy's made a YONKO want to come after us!

...Who the hell am I kidding. I knew he'd make us a powerful enemy before we even broke the surface of the water.

So, yes, with THAT new info in mind, we were preparing to leave Fishman Island and enter the New World. Shirahoshi was crying that we had to leave so soon (which Luffy chastised) and Sanji and Brook were bidding tearful farewells, to the mermaids of course. I was actually doing something useful; loading the ship with supplies, no treasure though, my captain gave it all away, which obviously Nami was not happy about. I went back and forth between Usopp and Chopper, weeping with a depressed aura over them at the revelation that a Yonko was now after us.

I finished loading the last crate on and leaned over the side. "Phew, that's done. Thanks for the help by the way." I muttered sarcastically.

"Oi, Ellix! We've got a new Log Pose!" Luffy, on Shirahoshi's hand, exclaimed.

"Eh? We have?" I jumped down next to Nami and noticed the new three needled Log Pose on her wrist.

One of the ministers explained something about the magnetic fields of the New World islands, but it was boring and I fell asleep...can you blame me? But I woke up from piqued interest when he said that the most erratic needle of the three meant the most dangerous path.

"Really? That's interesting." I nodded.

"Don't pretend to take an interest now!" Nami panicked. "We're better off not knowing that!"

"It shows where its most dangerous!?" Chopper yelled.

"No way! Break that Log Pose!" Usopp cried.

"But why? If you have knowledge of the most dangerous routes, you can navigate safely." The Minister pointed out.

Suddenly, a certain rubber man stretched his neck out and wrapped it around Nami. "Let's see..."

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Usopp screamed in horror.

"Noooooooooooooo!" Nami wailed.

"The one in the middle is wobbling a lot! We should go there!" Luffy observed.

"He-He was listening!" Usopp cried.

I grabbed Luffy by the neck and unravelled him before stretching his neck out with a sinister grin. "Do that again, and I'll tie your neck in a knot."

"Like hell!" Luffy replied, uselessly thrashing his head around.

"Luffy!" Nami joined in by throttling him. "You stay out of this! I'll decide where we go from now on!"

"No way! I'm the captain!" Luffy yelled.

"Please captain, listen to what your navigator has to say!" Usopp and Chopper begged.

"Alright, you guys! We're all ready to set sail!" Franky called. "I'm all clear on how to take us up! Are we going!?"

"IKUZOI!" Luffy shouted happily.

"Nyuuu! I'm going to help out with repairs at the factory. Will you be okay without a guide?" Hatchi asked.

"We'll be fine! We managed to have fun adventures on our way here!" Luffy smiled.

"That's the spirit! Who needs a guide! A true man follows his own path into the jaws of hell!" Usopp roared.

"Yeah! This is war!" Chopper screamed.

'What a quick 180.' I thought with a sigh.

"I think they're losing themselves." Robin said.

"Come back anytime!" "Your always welcome!" The mermaids called.

"Of course! Your the All Blue of my heart!" A lovey-dovey Sanji replied.

"What a pathetic dream." Zoro stated.

"You say something!?" Sanji raged.

"I have naught but the deepest thanks to offer you." Fukaboshi said as he and Luffy clasped hands. "You have my gratitude, my people will pray for your safety."

"Great!" Was Luffy's simplistic reply.

"Sheesh, we ended up becoming heroes after all." I chuckled to myself.

"Jimbei!" Luffy called to our friend. Me, my captain and him all shared a confident smirk, as that was all that was needed. "Alright! Hoist the sail guys! We're setting off! Farewell to Fishman Island!"

And so we set off, waving behind us at all our old and new friends with smiles on our faces, when suddenly-

"Luffy-sama! Ellix-sama!" Suddenly shirahoshi was up alongside Sunny!

"Waaah! Cryhoshi!?" Luffy gasped.

"Shirahoshi!?" I more politely exclaimed.

"If I am lucky enough, to see you both again, when that time comes...I promise I will no longer be a crybaby! I hope you will take me out for a wonderful walk again!" She said.

"For a walk? What, you want to visit your mums grave again?" Luffy asked.

"This time, I would rather go somewhere even further away, above the waves, I would like to see a real forest!" She smiled.

"Of course!" I smiled. "You've never seen one, so why the heck not?"

"Do you promise?" She whimpered, holding out her giant pinky.

"Sure! Leave it to us, it's a promise!" Luffy grinned, wrapping his rubber pinky around hers.

"A promise it is, definitely." I agreed as I touched my pinky against hers.

"Are you two sure you should be making promises like that without consulting us?" Nami asked.

"Luffy-san! Ellix-san! A promise is something to be honoured to the grave and beyond!" Brook would know about that...

"Alright then, Shirahoshi, I'll promise you as well!" Nami nodded.

"Me too!" Sanji cooed.

"Then I'll promise too!" All of the Strawhats pinkies (minus Franky's and Zoro's) were soon touching Shirahoshi's.

"That's that then, a crew promise." I nodded.

"Shishishi! And you remember not to cry, right?" Luffy reminded her.

"Of course!" She replied.

"See you again! Doririririri!" I laughed as we said goodbye to the mermaid princess as well.

We finally left Fishman Island, using this Kuuigosu Wood to control our ascent to the surface. Luffy was on the figurehead, smiling at the fact that we'd soon be in the same sea as Shanks.

"Your family is in the New World too, Ellix." Nami noted.

"Yeah, it would be nice to meet them." I thought aloud. "But, our adventure comes first!"

"Once we get back up above the waves, we'll be in the greatest sea of all time!" Luffy cheered.

"It's taken us long enough, I'll slice them all to pieces." Zoro smirked.

"Hang on a little longer, Laboon! Only halfway left to go!" Brook said.

"The Sunny won't let us down!" Franky grinned.

"Don't worry, I'll take us wherever we need to go!" Nami smiled.

"Don't worry about getting injured, you guys!" Chopper cried.

"I'll make sure you never go hungry!" Sanji promised.

"With a warrior of the sea like me on board, there's nothing to fear!" Usopp said.

"Fufufu..." Robin giggled.

"Oren! Marcus! I'll show you how far I've come!" I pledged to myself.

"Full speed ahead men! TO THE NEW WORLD!" Luffy screamed.

"YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!" The rest of us shouted.

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We were slowly making our ascent up to the New World, with everybody just relaxing for the time being until we broke the surface. As for me, I made myself shirtless and grabbed a towel before walking across the Deck.

"Oi, Ellix, what are you doing?" Usopp asked as he was busy tying a rope with Luffy watching in awe like a little kid.

"I, my dear sniper, am going to take a bath." I smiled happily. "It's been two years since I've had a wash on the Sunny, and the only hygiene I could get during my training was a cold dip in seawater once a week..." I shuddered at the unhygienic memory.

"You really like hygiene don't you?" Usopp sweatdropped. "Anyway, have fun with that."

"I will." I nodded as I practically skipped up the steps, noticing an electrified Sanji and Brook laying blithering outside the door. "Jeez, you guys are hopeless." I kicked them out of the way and slipped in the door, noticing our doctor was in there.

"Hey, Ellix." He waved.

"Oh, hey Chopper." I greeted him. "Did you come to take a bath too?"

"Nah, I washed the day before yesterday." He said.

"You should wash EVERY day." I muttered.

"Oh? Are you there, Ellix?" A voice called from within the room.

I perked up. "Nami? Your in heeeeeeeeeeeRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEE!?" I doubled back in shock from what I saw; Nami, in the bath, naked.

"Mm-hm." She nodded with a smile. "Did you come in for a wash?"

"I-uh-yes-but-um-that is-uh-" Words refused to form in my mind as I stared dumbly at her.

"Do you wanna come in with me?" She offered.

'+*WOM*#Q!CLP%CLM ~`VSD?/=G[&XW|}RK!?' My whole face flushed red at the offer.

"I promise it won't cost too much." She winked.

'You sly devil, using a mans weakness against him.' I thought whilst looking away, but as soon as I looked at her again my face became pink. "Uh...O...Okay..."

I deliberately shuffled to the opposite end of the bath and slid in with my pants still on. "Isn't Sunny's bath wonderful?" She asked.

"Y-Yes..." I mumbled, curled up into a ball...

"Ellix, you look hot, do you have a fever?" Chopper asked.

"Urusai, doctor!" I hissed.

Said doctor became distracted gy a small cloud, whispering 'cotton candy' to himself as he tried to reach out and grab it.

"When did you learn how to do that?" I asked, pointing at the cloud.

"Quite early on." Nami said. "I figured I might as well get some more practical uses out of my weather skills instead of pure battling. What about you? Did you find anything like that?"

"Hmm..." I thought for a second. "Ah, there is this." I grabbed onto my scalp and yanked, pulling out a multicoloured bubble that floated next to the cloud. "I call it Dream Bubble. Not only does it make you fall asleep, but it can reflect the dreams of the person I pull it out of." The bubble showed a lot of food, before I popped it with a Shigan.

"That's sugoi!" Chopper cheered. "Do me! Do me!"

"Okay." I pulled a bubble out of his hat, which showed cotton candy in it, which he tried to grab.

"Hey, that's really nice, Ellix." Nami smiled. "Do you think you could do me?"

"Uhhhh..." I stared at her from across the bath. "Well..."

"C'mon, please?" She begged with her big chocolate brown eyes.

'Your really good.' I thought, before awkwardly shuffling along the bath edge until I was an arms length away from her, before lightly touching her orange hair and pulling a bubble out. I peered into it and was surprised to see me, from two years ago, just before we got seperated.

"Ah!" Nami quickly popped it before sweatdropping in embarrassment. "Gomen...I don't know why that turned up, haha...by the way Ellix, do you know what happened to the wristband I gave you?"

"Gah!" My face drained of colour at the memory. "I'm sorry Nami!" I clasped my hands together in apology. "I know it was the one thing you gave to me, and in the time I had it, I truly treasured it! But then I fought this bastard who broke it! And I tried to fix it but I couldn't! And I'm really really sorry!"

There was a pause as she just stared at me, before giving off a small giggle. "Baka, I was just asking. You didn't have to worry so much. But..." Oh my god she's hugging me! In the bath! With...THOSE pressing into me! "Your really sweet for taking such good care of it."

"Haba! Habaaaaaa!" I thought I was going to faint as she hugged me, whilst naked remember, as my whole body burned a bright red, when suddenly the ship lurched to the side a bit.

"The ship's shaking about, and they sure are being noisy up on deck." Chopper said as he tried to catch both the cloud and the bubble.

"Maybe I shouldn't have left them on their own after all." Nami huffed.

"Right!" I said a bit too loudly, still red. "We-We should go and get them sorted."

"I guess so." Nami sighed as she stood up out of the wate-HAPPINESS PUNCH! VERSION 2!

"Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!" I inhaled sharply as steam blew out from either side of my head before I fell out of the bath.

"Ellix!" Chopper panicked. "Oh no! Is anybody here a doctor!?...Oh wait, I am."

"I'm perfectly fine!" I stated as I jumped to my feet.

"It's a miracle!" Chopper gasped.

I slipped on my trousers, shirt and jacket as Nami zipped up a cardigan. "You did that on purpose." I said.

"Mayyyyybe." She replied, sticking her tongue out cutely. "By the way, for the bath, you would owe me 500,000,000 Berri. But for you, I'll reduce it to 5,000,000."

"Arigatou for being so generous!" I bowed.

The three of us rushed outside to see a giant writhing wirlpool! Underwater! "Oh no! Is that...the White Strom!?" Nami cried.

"The what!?" I gasped.

"It's a massive underwater event that throws travelling ships halfway across the New World!" She hurriedly explained before giving orders: "Hurry everyone! We have to get away from that vortex!"

"And there's our navigator! You heard her! Let's get out of her!" Usopp cried.

It was then I noticed the giant fish next to our ship. "Hey, what's that?" I asked, whilst Nami facefaulted at it.

"Oh that! It's a fish we caught!" Luffy said whilst giving a peace sign.

"What are you playing at!? We can't sail the ship with a thing that size attached to it!" Nami shouted.

"It's getting caught up in the vortex!" I pointed as the monster was being sucked in.

"Oh no! We have to get it back!" Luffy cried.

"No! We have to cut it loose!" Nami screamed.

"EEEEEEEEH!?" Luffy, Sanji, Zoro and Usopp facefault in horror.

"Which is more important!? The fish or your lives!?" Nami roared. "Honestly! I leave you alone for TEN MINUTES and this is the situation you manage to get us in!?"

"It does look like it would go nice with barbeque sauce..." I observed.

"NOT YOU TOO!" She raged. "Franky! We need a Coup de Burst!"

"No, it's far too late for that!" Franky posed, before poinring at our catch to see it already dragging us in. "See?"

"Whooaa! This is awesome!" Luffy cheered. "EVERYONE HANG ONTO SOMETHING!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" I latched onto the left rigging and hung on for dear life as the Sunny and all of us on board were sent spinning around so fast all I could see were flashes of colours and water.

Suddenly the spinning stopped, and I flopped onto the deck. "We've stopped!?"

"Did we bump into somethi...?" Luffy stopped as we all saw what was in the water, and our jaws dropped.

"Eeh!?" Brook cried, and rightly so.

"LABOON!" Me and Luffy cried. There were Laboon's everywhere! Loads of giant Laboon's! All whales with scares on their faces!

"Laboon! You've grown so much!" Brook cried happily.

"Don't be stupid! Laboon's back in the first half of the Grand Line!" Usopp said. "He couldn't even make it through the hole in the Red Line with a body that size!"

"To think we'd run into a group of island whales." Robin said.

"They all have scars on their heads just like Laboon." Zoro noted.

"The resemblance is shocking." I mumbled, admiring the whales as Brook sung Binks Brew in tears, still thinking they were Laboon.

"Anyway, should we really just be admiring the view!? We may be out of the whirlpool, but we're not out of danger yet!" Sanji said. "First, I'll do a roll call to make sure we didn't lose anyone in that crazy vortex! Nami-san!"

"Here!"

"Robin-chan!"

"I'm still here."

"Alright, then let's get this ship moving!"

"You jackass!" I shouted with shark teeth.

"Sanji! Call our names too!" Chopper cried.

"Sanji-kun, allow me to confirm that the other seven members of our crew are all present and accounted for!" Usopp saluted.

"Nami-san! We await your orders!" Sanji said.

"There's no need to go anywhere!" She replied.

"You heard the lady! We don't need to do a thing you layabouts! Now keep admiring those whales!"

"What's with that attitude!?" Me and Usopp shouted.

"A group of whales this large will cause a powerful current as they move!" She explained. "Trying to fight the flow would only put us in more danger! So we raise the mainsail and point the ship in the same direction the whales are moving!"

As we got to work, Brook called out to the whales: "Is there anyone here related to Laboon!? If there is anyone here looking for a young whale who was seperated from his family fifty years ago, then have no fear! Your child is safe and sound, living a healthy life on the other side of the ocean! I hear he has grown to a magnificent size! So please, do not worry!"

"Brook..." Seeing Brook's dedication to Laboon always touched me, and showed how much the skeleton cared for the whale.

As we rode the current, Brook sang Binks Brew, and one of the whales enjoyed it so much it began carrying it up towards the surface! We were getting closer...and closer...to the surface...to the New World...and then...

"BUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!" Us and the whales emerged into a horrifyingly violent sea! Waves thrashed around! Thunder boomed! Black storm clouds plagued the sky! Lighting struck every single second!

"The weather's terrible!" Usopp gasped.

"Yohohoho! What a stormy sky!" Brook noted.

"Mighty gales in the air!" Robin added.

"The waves are rough and wild!" Franky said.

"Our compass spinning wildly!" Nami smiled.

"I can see red waters ahead!" Chopper cheered.

"A raging ocean of fire!" Sanji grinned.

"It's like we're standing at the gates of hell!" Zoro smirked.

"Danger and death burn in the atmosphere!" I yelled.

"BRING IT ON!" Luffy shouted.

We were finally here...the New World!

Ellix's Adventure Continues...in One Piece OC Film: Z

It's done, everybody! Fishman Island Saga is finished and we're finally in the New World!

Ellix: Hell yeah! I'm ready for it!

Since this is the last chapter, I'm not going to reply to reviews, but instead, I would like to thank Thief-chan, TheRealEvanSG, TheFourthWallBreaker, R.E.W 4, HikariLight99, pokemonking0924, Exile037, Son of Whitebeard, Ikaros Light, SummerRoxx, DoctorWhoXX, AngelofDeath666, Nexus, Totong, zed, pokeball645, Martyn, Someonethere and Guest for reviewing and supporting me. Some of you have been with me since OC Film: Strong World, and as a person, I am so lucky to have such brilliant people supporting me all this time. You, and only you, are the reason that this series has made it to this point, and why I haven't given up after my first story. Thank you, everyone.

As a notice, I'm going away on holiday next week, so if I'm not active; that's why. But be sure to keep an eye out for OC Film: Z! I'm looking forward to writing it!

Until then, see you all next time!

Ellix: Farewell!