The four finally came to a stop and found themselves floating among giant deep sea creatures, not that they could see any of them as it was pitch black.

All present knew how to use Haki though so they could sense the creatures and each other, so they first regrouped with each other before they would go looking for the others.

"Hey! Nicole-chan! Are you alright?!" Sanji called fluttering over to where he could sense her.

"I'm alright! But i think my bubble is leaking so it's gonna pop any second" Nicole replied, she could feel the water filling in.

Then as she prepared to face the crushing depths Zoro pulled her into his bubble just as hers popped.

"I've got you" Zoro said pulling her in.

"Thanks Zoro" she smiled and kissed his cheek, now that the two were sharing the bubble, but that didn't last long as Sanji's and Luffy's bubble popped shortly afterwards and they all crammed into the last remaining bubble.

Sanji also immiditiatly started leaking blood from his nose like a fountain once sharing the same space as Nicole.

"Hey! The kraken came down with us!" Luffy called once safe in the bubble.

"That's good, we can find the others quicker with his help" Zoro said.

"I think its waking up" Nicole said just as the kraken was indeed waking up.

Thankfully the octopus could see in the dark waters and recognized the four that beat him.

"So you gonna need another beat down or are you gonna help us?" Luffy asked the kraken cracking his knuckles, the kraken nodded and grabbed their bubble as they went to find the others.

~

As they were looking they saw a light in the distance and figuring it must be the Sunny and headed where the light was coming from.

They could see a huge angler fish and an Umiboze with a huge decrypt ship behind them, but more importantly they also saw the Sunny.

Wadatsumi was just about to hit the Sunny when a tentacle uppercut him knocking him back.

"Kraken?!" Chopper exclaimed.

Then the Kraken lifted all of its tentacles and started mercilessly beating Wadatsumi in a flurry of punches, even when the Umiboze grabbed one tentacle the Kraken did not stop.

"Alright, that enough, stop!" Luffy called and the giant octopus stopped letting Wadatsumi fall to the floor.

"Good job" Luffy said and the kraken sheepishly rubbed the back of its head "Hey!" the rubber man called as he, Zoro, Sanji and Nicole, all stuffed into one bubble, made their way over to the Sunny.

"Luffy! Zoro! Sanji! Nicole!" Usopp called.

"I'm glad you're all alive!" Chopper cried happily.

"What were you doing?!" Nami asked.

"Nami-san! Robin-Chan!" Sanji called his nose already flowing blood like a fountain because Nicole was squished between him and Zoro.

"We've been looking for you guys!" Luffy said.

Zoro sighed a bit "They're so high-maintenance, they got lost" he muttered.

Nicole giggled a bit "That they are but we're the ones who got lost" she pointed out.

Sanji spurted even more blood from his nose spotting Robin and Nami.

"Sanji! Oh no he's relapsing, he needs rehab with less stimulating pictures" Chopper said going through a collection of pictures he had of the girls on the crew.

"Well, Nicole's bubble popped pretty much immiditiatly after we came to a stop, so Zoro saved her, then Sanji's bubble and mine popped so we got into Zoro's, i though i was gonna die!" Luffy summarized with a laugh as they reached the Sunny and popped back onto the ship.

"Don't make us worry" Nami told him.

"Alright, here's a song to celebrate your return" Brook said and started singing though the skeletal man went mostly ignored.

"Lots of space! There's no place like home!" Luffy exclaimed flopping on the lawn spreading himself out.

"Luffy! I was scared!" Chopper cried.

"You all have an amazing ability to survive" Franky commented.

"I can't believe it, you really tamed that monster octopus?" Nami asked.

"Yeah, he was quite docile after that beatdown" Nicole said nodding.

"And are you going to use the Kraken?" Robin asked with a small laugh.

"Yeah i'm gonna use him like experienced people do! Right Surume?" Luffy asked, naming the octopus Surume.

"That's a squid snack!" Usopp pointed out.

"Surume, the kraken is an octopus but he named it Surume, oh yeah!" Brook sang.

"Alright, draw the Sunny, Surume!" Luffy called pointing the way forward and the octopus held the ship delicately with two of his tentacles and began moving forward.

"Well instead of making him draw the ship, we have to make sure that he's not gonna smash it up" Usopp said.

"Don't worry Usopp, Surume is a nice octopus, have a little faith" Nicole said, she had already promised to herself to cuddle the octopus once they made it to Fish-Man island.

"Captain, the pirate ship is" one of the pirates on the ghost ship said as Surume passed them by while carrying the Sunny.

"Don't let it get away! Go after it!" the captain of the ship yelled.

"Yeah!" the haunted ships crew echoed but just then there was a huge boom and the ground started shaking.

"What is it?" Luffy wondered as the rumbling grew louder.

"This is no good, Captain Vander Decken!" someone from the other ship yelled.

"Oh no, the undersea volcano's gonna erupt!" Nami said.

"What?!" Chopper and Usopp yelled.

"We are too close to it!" Franky said.

"Everyone! Let's go back for now!" Vander Decken called and had his ship pulled away by Wadatsumi and the angler fish.

"Oh no! Luffy tell the kraken to get away from here now!" Nami said.

"Okay, hey Surume!" Luffy called but Usopp jumped in "Wait you don't need to! He's running like hell already!" the long nosed sniper pointed out.

"That's a terrible look for such a mythical monster!" Usopp said.

"Nice! Maybe we can hit it off!" Nami said.

"He runs awful" Robin stated.

"Don't say that, that's how horrifying the eruption is!" Franky said.

"Besides what did you expect? He's got like a dozen arms" Nicole said.

"That's right" Brook said.

"And what is he doing?" Zoro asked referring to Sanji going through pictures of the girls.

"It's rehab" Chopper said.

"But i wanna see the eruption" Luffy said eagerly looking out to the field of hydrothermal vents.

"Evacuate to the front of the ship!" Usopp yelled running to the helm.

"Yeah!" Chopper said.

"It doesn't change anything! It's only a few meters" Nami told them, just then an eruption occurred right behind them shaking them around.

"Lava's flowing along to the sea floor, the temperature is soaring" Nami said looking at the lava flow.

"Feels like i'm in boiling water, i'm gonna be cooked!" Usopp muttered to himself.

"Run Surume!" Nami yelled.

"You can do it!" Chopper cheered the octopus on.

"Go faster Surume, or you're gonna become boiled octopus!" Usopp told him and that really seemed to light a fire under the kraken and he began running faster.

"Boiled octopus? That's great! I wanna eat some!" Luffy said which got Surume running even faster.

"Because of the difference in temperature the sea current's starting to swirl!" Nami said and checked her log pose.

"Nami-san which way is the Fish-Man island?" Sanji asked turning to her and spurting blood from his nose, though he didn't go flying this time.

"Even at a time like this?" Chopper wondered "Sanji, you have to focus on your rehab!" the doctor ordered.

"Keep going straight! We're getting close! Jump into that trench!" Nami called, indeed there was a deep trench up ahead.

"It's a sheer cliff! You've got to be kidding!" Usopp yelled.

"It's darker than dark!" Chopper yelled.

"Are you sure that Fish-Man island is in there?!" Usopp asked with tears running down his face.

The lava was getting closer to them.

"It's hot in the back!" Chopper yelled.

"It's totally dark in the front! Scary! I'm sure there'll be another monster! I don't think we can make it home alive! Luffy! The darkness is a bottomless pot that connects to hell!" Usopp continued yelling something about a tea pot but Luffy ignored him.

"Jump in Surume!" the rubber man called and everyone prepared themselves as the octopus took the plunge.

"What's that above us?" Franky asked.

"Rocks?!" Robin asked.

"Mud?!" Brook pondered.

"It's an avalanche of rocks and earth!" Nami called.

"It's it technically a landslide then?!" Nicole asked holding tightly onto Zoro as he held her just as tightly.

"Whatever it is the eruption caused it!" Chopper yelled.

"I think even the Sunny would break apart if one of those giant rocks hits it" Usopp said.

"Get away Surume!" Nami called and the octopus swam away from the edge of the trench where the rocks were falling.

"I'm gonna go out and cut them! Luffy! Hold tightly to my leg!" Zoro said.

"Okay, i got it!" Luffy said, but then Nicole hit them both over the head.

"There's a limit to stupidity! The pressure is going to crush you!" she yelled at them, mostly at Zoro really.

"Then what should we do?!" Zoro asked.

"If we can buy some time to get away from the cliff" Nami said.

"Leave it to me! Sure Kill; Green Star; Sargasso!" Usopp called firing a plant seed from his slingshot, it went out the bubble and immiditiatly began growing a seaweed like plant.

The plant tangled into the rocks momentarily stopping the avalanche/landslide.

"It only holds for a while, now's the chance to get away Surume!" Usopp called and the octopus got out of the way of the landslide/avalanche.

"Usopp, that was great!" Luffy complimented the long nosed snipper.

"Yes, it was great judgment!" Brook said.

"We made it through!" Chopper called.

"It's not like i was fooling around for the past two years, let me tell you about it! It's a very touching story! The days of the relentless diet with Master Heracles'n" Usopp was cut off before he could ramble some more.

"Maybe next time" Nami said.

"Why next time?" Usopp asked.

"Nami-san is harsh" Brook said.

"Surume, you did great too!" Luffy called to the giant octopus.

"We're safe now!" Chopper said.

"Thank you Surume!" Nami thanked the giant octopus.

"Surume! Surume! Hey!" The crew started cheering on the octopus but then one last rock hit him right on the head knocking out the giant beast and he let got of the Sunny sending everyone to sink deeper and deeper.