Chapter 33: Chaotic Seas
Harry, Rias, and Naruto were kneeling with their hands on the ground as they sweated and exhaled in relief. They had been sailing for hours in this unknown sea and, as rarely before, they were afraid. After the sudden storm passed, however, the further they went, the seas did not seem to give them relief. It was to the point that Naruto had to buy the navigation skill in order to steer the ship properly. This skill not only allowed him to masterfully handle the ship, but also anticipate dangerous weather that might appear, but it still took more than two days for them to sail the sea smoothly, and they could see an island in the distance.
"We need information... a lot of it," Rias said tiredly, not even having slept.
"We don't know how this world works, its ways of fighting, or things that could be really important."
"We'll get to that island no matter what-ttebayo..." Naruto muttered with determination, but still exhausted from not sleeping for days.
Everyone nodded before getting up and walking towards the stern, where the mast was. Naruto began to steer the ship as they approached the island little by little.
But suddenly...
BOOOOOOOM!!!
A huge explosion reverberated from what looked like a mountain on the island before a column of fire, smoke, and ash rose from it.
"Oh... you've got to be kidding me," Harry muttered as beads of sweat fell from his face as he watched a volcano erupt.
"Nevermind, we have to go!" Rias shouted. "We barely have any food and it's the only alternative we have!"
Naruto nodded vigorously, despite being sweaty from nerves, he slowly approached the shores of the island and anchored the boat before jumping off. But, the three of them stopped when they saw and heard something.
"GYAGYAGYAGYA!!"
"GABABABABABA!!"
What they heard were two huge weird laughs and a... huge animal flying away.
"Was that a... dinosaur?", Rias asked watching as the archaeopteryx flew away.
"No... more importantly... Those were too loud laughs!", Harry said growling with a bit of annoyance at all the unknown and potentially dangerous things they could have found on this island.
"I guess we'll have to see what it is...", Naruto said before starting to run at high speeds. Rias and Harry followed him immediately. It didn't take long for them to enter the island, but Rias and Harry were surprised to see dinosaurs on the island. However, what surprised them the most was seeing two giants running at each other before punching their fists and creating tremors throughout the island.
"They're giants!" Naruto exclaimed in disbelief.
"They are..." Harry muttered as he watched the two giants fight while laughing loudly.
"I can't believe it," Rias muttered with a gasp. While different races lived in their world, she had never seen one so enormous. Seeing it was different than hearing or reading about it.
"Mm?... It seems we have visitors, Dorry," one of the giants said as they looked at the trio.
"Huh?... Ah! That's right, Brogy!"
Dorry is a well-built giant with a long beard. He usually dresses in a Viking outfit with a helmet covering his eyes. And as for the other giant, Brogy dresses in a Viking costume, consisting of a red jumpsuit with golden buttoned suspenders, fur linings, a leather strap around the right shoulder and another as a belt, yellow pants with black stripes and fur linings on the bottom, yellow shoes, and a red helmet with two horns. Brogy has a blonde beard shaped like an axe blade, small eyes, a wide grin, and a pig nose.
They both walked over before falling to the ground, sitting down as they looked at the three of them. The sudden movement caused the ground to shake a little and Naruto to trip and fall on his butt.
"Gababababa! It's good to see visitors once again!" Brogy laughed in glee as he raised his head.
"Gyagyagyagya! You're right, Brogy!" Dorry laughed loudly as well.
"It's... Dorry and Brogy... right? Why were they fighting?" Rias decided to ask and speak first.
"We're fighting over a dispute! Although we forgot what it was, we're fighting mostly for fun now!" Brogy exclaimed, answering Rias' question. "But... What are your names, little friends?"
"I'm Rias Gremory..."
"Uzumaki Naruto-ttebayo"
"Harry Potter"
"I see! So you're traveling to the new world?!... If you've just arrived on this island, then you must be newbies in the seas of paradise," Dorry smiled loudly, showing her huge teeth. While they had been on this island for a long time, they had also made their travels around the world. And of course, they remembered things from their last visits.
"New world? Paradise?... Are those names for the sea?" Harry asked curiously.
"Paradise is the sea where this island is located. From what we know, its name comes from it being a complete paradise compared to the chaotic sea of the new world. And, because of that, the next half of the sea is like a new world of dangers, hence the name," Dorry answered with a bit of seriousness.
"I see..." Harry said seriously. It seems like the dangers would become greater with time, was what he thought.
"Can we stay here for a while?" Rias asked.
"Of course! Even if we live here, we don't own the island! Just be careful of the more dangerous beasts!" Brogy exclaimed smiling.
"Amazing!" Naruto said more excited to have such a mysterious place to stay.
Harry frowned a bit before taking out his phone and entering the shop. There, he used the search bar by typing in 'Paradise Sea'. The search triggered several things, but one of them was the most important, One Piece: Encyclopedia. Harry bought it, even if it cost five hundred points, leaving him with three thousand five hundred chat points.
He immediately closed his eyes and used his psychometry to be able to find out what was written in the book. However, it didn't work. It seems that this wasn't written by a person, so there were no 'memories' imbued in the book, he had to read it.
So, he sat down to read it.
"I'll stay and read this. You guys better find something to eat."
"Um...", Rias nodded and looked at Naruto before running off to catch some food.
. . .
"Mm?" Harry snapped out of his concentration when he noticed a delicious smell. When he raised his head, he blinked at the sight of a huge piece of meat cooking between two large trees as the giants watched with drool dripping from their mouths, just like Naruto.
"To think I could eat dinosaur…" he heard Rias mutter.
"How long did it take?... I got lost in reading," Harry asked curiously.
"Four hours…" Rias replied as she pointed her thumb behind her where there were several dead dinosaurs on the ground and fruits on the ground. Harry nodded and showed the book to Rias.
"It seems we can buy information about the world at the shop...", Harry said and called Naruto over before he began to explain how the world worked: Pirates, Navy, Revolutionary Army, World Government, Haki, Devil Fruits and various other important things, especially about the world and the seas, as well as how to travel thanks to Log Pose and Eternal Pose.
"That Haki seems interesting," Rias said as she crossed one of her legs over the other. She has yet to find something that her power of destruction can't destroy. And, even though Haki would still be destroyed by her power, she had expectations of finding something that her power can't destroy.
"Aren't you intrigued by Devil Fruits?", Harry asked with a bit of curiosity.
"Yes... but not that much. We're both part of worlds that contain magic. Besides, Naruto is one where people train and can spit and use the elements of nature. Compared to techniques like Haki, Devil Fruits are less interesting."
"... ", Harry just kept silent. He knew Rias was right on that point, but he couldn't help but feel curious about a fruit that gave powers of different kinds to a person.
"By the way...", Naruto turned to them after tearing off a piece of meat with his hand. "What are we going to call our group?"
"We're going to be pirates, right?"
"With what we're going to do, they'll consider us pirates anyway," Harry answered with a slightly excited smile."
"How about the Leaf Pirates?", Naruto asked.
"Denied," was the answer from the other two.
"Ttebayo~.... ", Naruto lowered his head a little discouraged with the quick refusal.
"Dimensional pirates?", Harry asked tilting his head.
"Mmm... ", Rias thought about it for a minute. "Not bad... plus we could use it in other worlds if necessary."
"No! That sounds so boring!" Naruto exclaimed crossing his arms in an X.
"Well... we'll think about it while we fill our stomachs," Rias smiled before getting up from where she was sitting and walking over to the huge piece of dinosaur meat. The giants had been quiet listening as they cooked their own pieces of meat.
. . .
Harry was walking around the island at night, having left everyone else sleeping. He wanted to get a closer look at the dinosaurs and explore this place a bit more. He had found out a bit more about the island with these hours on it. The first was that there were several volcanoes that erupted randomly. And, one of them, did so at an interval of every hour.
At one point, Harry got bored of walking. He jumped up before his body transformed into that of a raven and began to fly just a few meters above the trees. He knew that there were flying creatures that could kill him in this form. After all, he couldn't use magic in his animagus transformation.
He was enjoying the wind for a bit before flying harder towards the volcano that erupted every hour. He was curious to know if there was anything near the place. But, before he got there, he blinked as he saw a larger than normal tree growing from a huge skeleton.
"Huh?... This is supposed to be a... Brontosaurus?" Harry scratched his head with a wing as he saw the huge bones that made up the skeleton of a long-necked dinosaur. The interesting thing was that the tree grew from the ground where the animal's stomach should be. The tree was bigger than all the others, even surpassing the skeleton of the prehistoric animal.
"CAW!" Harry cried in surprise, to the point that he cawed like a real crow. After all, there, on one of the thick branches of the tree, was hanging a devil fruit. The fruit almost seemed to say to everyone who approached it: Come, I'm here! EAT ME!
"Uhh..." Harry launched himself into flight and landed on the branch before returning to his human form. He took the fruit and noticed that it was bigger than he thought, almost the size of his head. It was bright yellow, almost golden. It had swirls of what looked like layers of flames surrounding it and was shaped like a mango.
"Is this just my luck?" Harry sat there thinking about the coincidences of the universe and fate. He never thought he would find a devil fruit in the first place he visited in this world. In the end, he just shrugged and took a bite of the fruit.
"Disgusting… *Crunch!*" Harry muttered, but took another bite anyway. The taste made his stomach hurt a little and he felt like throwing up. But, he didn't know if a single bite was necessary to receive the fruit's power. The encyclopedia didn't have that little detail, so he ate the entire fruit before burping loudly and almost throwing up.
Harry waited five minutes… ten minutes… twenty minutes…
"Ah!" he blinked before reaching out his hand and exerting his newfound power, creating a small tornado of wind over the palm of his hand.
"Interesting, even if it's not a Logia, it still has power that matches one. Mm... maybe it'll surpass a Logia with the right training," Harry thought as he rubbed his chin, thinking about his fruit. In the end he just jumped off the tree and turned into a crow. However, his eyes widened when he could sense the wind differently and was able to manipulate it to propel himself and travel over two kilometers in just thirty seconds.
"Woaah~... This has a lot of potential!"
When he arrived at the makeshift camp they had made, Rias was waiting for him with a smile.
"Did you have fun?"
"Yes...", Harry replied as he transformed into a human and stood up. "By the way... Do you know what a Roc is?"
Rias blinked a little before nodding slowly, "If I recall correctly... it's a gigantic bird capable of lifting an elephant without a problem. Well, that's a more 'human' representation though. I also heard that in Chinese and Asian stories close to the country, a Roc could travel 90,000 miles in a single flap of its wings; this, of course, is a mythological representation of the bird."
Rias looked at Harry who was sweating a little as he tried to look anywhere but at her eyes.
"Harry... What happened?"
"Uh...", Harry scratched the back of his head as he looked to the side, "I... I might have eaten the Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Roc."
Rias stared at Harry for a long moment before her lower jaw began to slowly drop. She was too shocked to think or say anything. What kind of luck was that? Finding a devil fruit might be a bit difficult, but a Mythological Zoan was even more difficult. According to the encyclopedia, they were rarer than Logia, which gave you incredible combat power and invulnerability to any blow without Haki or something affecting the element!
And now, Harry found and ate a Mythological Zoan?!
"You're so lucky!" Rias exclaimed with a bit of envy. She also wanted to eat a cool devil fruit.
Harry just smiled wryly.
"By the way, we're going out tomorrow," Rias said.
"Huh?"
"I bought a map of Paradise," Rias pulled out a map that showed different islands. "When I saw the islands, I bought a Log Pose from the shop for the next island. Now we have a path and we can travel without detouring too much."
"Foolshout Island..." Harry muttered as he saw where Rias was pointing with her finger.
"Um..." She nodded and moved her finger to another island. "After that we will go to Kuraigana Island, it is not too far compared to others and we will be able to resupply repeatedly without much trouble."
"By the way, I have a name for the ship," Harry mentioned with a smile.
"... Odyssey..."
Rias smiled as she nodded: "A journey full of adverse and favorable adventures... Not bad."
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