Serious: The Aurora Pirates Part 6: The Grand Line

James was lying on his bed, his hands held behind his head. They had just left the island behind the island where they had trained. After so long, they were finally on their way to the Grand Line.

"So..." James whispered. "This is it." He grinned. "Just a little further. One more push and we're there."
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(Oh...something I forgot to mention. The baby dragon was supposed to get his name last RP. So he's called Immelman now.)

Immelman had taken to staying up in the crow's nest of the ship. It was a good place to sleep, sunbathe, and feel the ocean air running over his scales. The baby dragon hopped up on the edge of the crow's nest to watch the waves. He noticed a small strip of...something off in a the distance. It looked like land! With an excited squeak, Immelman hurled himself from the crow's nest and flew down to Jake's head.

"Hrgh!"
Jake had been dozing off (while standing, no less... while actually having orders to clean the deck, too...), so he had been a little surprised by suddenly having something hard and heavy landing on his head.
He calmed down really fast when his brain got back into reality and told him it had to be Immelman.
"What is it, sweetie?"
He looked at the horizon in search of what had upset the dragon so much and soon found it.
A wide grin spread over his face.
"Captain! Land!"

Kaori was on the deck, right in the front. He was waiting for challenges, old and new. He truly had learned some things in the island, despite his skepticism. Perhaps it had been a good idea.
(Gonna add some stuff to Kaori soon.)

telothlion was in a meditive postion with his wings covering him in a cone covered in bandages he did this while lamenting about he could of upset the first person who had cared for him in four years. telothlion also continplated about how these people could help him perhaps protect him against his old master.

"Land?" James slammed his door open. He walked to the front of the ship, slipping his swords onto his back, before he pulled out a pair of binoculars to look at the place up ahead. It was a tall object made of a reddish stone. In the center, James could just barely make out a small, blue river heading up the object. His heart began to quicken. Could it be? James lowered his binoculars and in a hushed voice said, "I think it's Reverse Mountain..."

"Look alive people!" James said. "We're coming in on the Grand Line hard and fast!" He looked through his binoculars again at the path ahead. "And it looks like we're about to hit a storm! Jake, take the wheel and keep us on our course!" James ran down to the main deck and clambered up one of the masts so that he would be ready to roll up the sails before they hit the storm.

"Aye, captain!"
Jake ran to the steering wheel, an action completely uncalled for, since it would have taken him only about two seconds to get there at normal speed.
He grabbed it and kept the ship on corse as well as he could.
"Wooho! Grand Line, here we come!"

Kaori, unlike many others in this situation, kept calm. He was a repeat visitor in the grand line, and he was sure they would make it fine there. After all, the crew was at his level.

The storm came upon them suddenly, though not totally without warning. James managed to tie up the sails before they could get torn. He dove towards deck and used Kazeshini to slow his descent right before he landed. They were being thrown around by the storm and were hard pressed to stay afloat.

((To tell you the truth, I don't remember this part of the manga all that well. Did the storm throw the Strawhat's into the Reverse Mountain stream so that they went right in or something?))

telothlion as the storm happened the room he was empty which was the safest place he thought he could be in but no one else was in their so decided to search the ship for the others and check if everyone else especially pyriss was safe.

Jake held on to the steering wheel with one hand. With the other hand, he held on to Immelman. He didn't want the poor thing to get blown away.
despite the wind and rain, he tried to keep his eyes open. the mountain was coming closer at great speed.

James frowned. They were coming in on the mountain to fast for his taste. If they hit the rocks then they would be crushed and killed instantly. Except for Kaori.

James stood at the center of his ship and raised Kazeshini. "Let's do this," he whispered. As the ship veered to the right, James spun Kazeshini over his head and began blowing back the wind that came at them from all sides. He only allowed the wind behind them to continue pushing them forward, but even that was dangerous and unpredictable as the ocean was still throwing them around. James smiled slightly. He would have to rely on Jake to make sure they got through safely. He had complete confidence in the fishman, but this storm was crazy.

"Alright, let's do this..."
Jake knew this wole thing depended on him now. Talk about pressure...
With all his strenght, he steered the ship away from the rocks, and towards the only opening, the one chacne they had to get to the Grand line.
Later, he'd wonder whether he had survived if they had hit the rocks... If he had landed in the water, then his chances would have been good...
But what did it matter?
It wasn't the case. In the blink of an eye, the rocks were not in front of them anymore, but next to them. Now to hope they wouldn't get too close.

They began to shoot up the middle stream, so James stopped dealing with the wind around them. They were on too straight of a course to be bothered. Besides, they were going so fast now, he wasn't sure that anything he did would really matter. James simply stood there and grabbed on to the mast, grinning insanely as they shot up Reverse Mountain.

"Here we GOOOOOO!" he shouted.

(Apparently valawxedit left...*sigh*)

The ship raced up the stream and reached the top of the cliff. For a brief moment all four blues could be seen, each with their own current that brought ships up to this point. Then the Aurora pirate ship shot down the other side at high speed. "There it is..." James whispered. "The Grand Line!" The ship hit the water below with a splash and finally slowed back down to a nice cruising speed. "We made it," James said. He grinned and punched the air with his fist. "Finally."

"You heard that? We're there!"
Sure, he had been here before... But Immelman hadn't!
"Look, sweetie! This is the grand line! You're gonna meet horrors untold here!"
He grinned widely as he held up Immelman in one hand to give him a good overlook over the...water. then he realised what he had said.
"No reason to worry, of course! I am here, after all! I'll protect you!"

Immelman squeaked out a laugh at what Jake had said. He wriggled out of Jake's hands and flew around the fishman in circle before he flew up to the crow's nest high above. The small dragon screeched and pointed with a claw at a piece of land attached to the mountain they had just crossed.

"Look at that," James said. The part of the mountain was not all that high above the ocean. It had an old lighthouse on it, but not much else except grass. Then there was a massive black shape sticking out of the water next to the place. James frowned, looking closely at the black shape. Suddenly it hit him what the thing was. "WHALE!" he shouted.

Jake squinted his eyes.
"Whale?"
Looked more like a moutnain to....
"WHALE!"
And what a whale it was! He had never seen anything that size! And they would be crushing right into it!

James ran towards the front of the ship while shouting at Jake, "GET US AROUND THAT THING! Immelman! With me!" The baby dragon shot down to James's side and fired off a stream of fire at the whale. James spun Kazeshini in front of himself. "Team Attack Combo: Searing Flame Wheel!" The wind tunnel from James's attack caught the flames and rocketed them at the whale, hitting it on the side. James could hear a moan of pain and the creature began pulling back slowly. But would it be enough?

(I think my new avatar is supposed to be Harry Potter. Oh, and by the way I'm going to be doing some major crew changes now, cutting and adding. We have a new crew member who wants to join so we should be picking him and one other up soon.)

telothlion wasnt a hero and had no weapons so when the call of a monster started he headed to the deck to check if anyone was hurt and if he could do anything without his weapons

"Ay, captain!"
Over panicking, Jake had almost forgotten he was the one with his hands on the steering wheel. He pushed it into one direction with all his strenght, it was a fight of the water rushing them into one direction and him wanting to go into another.
Slowly, the ship turned to the right.

James winced and prepared himself for the worst as the ship shot towards the small opening. It looked like they were going to make it for a moment, but then they scraped against the side of the whale. This smashed a hole in ship and sent the whole thing reeling. James felt himself being flung, spinning through the air and he hit the water hard, nearly blacking out from the impact.

Immelman almost suffered the same fate, but he managed to hurl himself into the air just in time, flying away from the ship. He circled above the wreckage and looked down at it, searching for any sign of life.

"POP!" Immelman screeched.

Jakes head was numbed by the sheer force of the impact with the whale, and then teh cold water, but he got himself together.
He could, after all, breathe underwater.
His captain, on the other hand, did not look so good. He didn't know if he needed help, but he simply took it onto himself to grab him and drag him towards the wreckage. He laid him on the wood carefully.
"Captain, are you okay?"
He asked while looking around for Immelman. When he saw him in the air, he was a lot more relaxed, knowing that the little one was safe.
He also looked around for any other crew members in need of saving... That impact should hav thrown a lot of them overboard, and with at least one of them he was sure that it was a devilfruit user...

telothlion got swept into the air by the wind then he dived back to the ship looking for anyone councious because he didnt want the crew he was with dead before he could help them properly

Kaori's offense was still lacking, but at least he could try and help his captain. With the impact, he too flew back after James, but he was more confident in his chances. Before hitting the water, he immobilized his boots. The resulting impact stung a bit, but he was used to it. He bent down just over the surface of the water and tried to grab James, but saw that the fishman had been faster than him. "I'll get the ship." He stated matter-of-factly.

He started moving as fast as he could with his airstepping technique. The ship was careening into rocks and taking in water. It'd be utterly ruined if he didn't act fast. He leaped on the ship and grabbed an oar. The ship was tilting with the water and heading towards the rocks. He ran to the opposite side of the ship, to the front, and jumped again, immobilizing his boots once more and pushing the ship with the oar with all his strength, slowing it down. Then he immobilized the ship, turning it fully sideways. Then the oar dropped and the ship drifted into the rocks with a crash, though with a fraction of the speed it would have had had he not done anything. The ship was 45 degrees and unmoving, stuck on the rocks, but at least this might be fixable.

He looked back at the others, having moved a fair bit away.