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Chapter 5 – The illusion (Ghost ship Ahoi!) I

On our way to the next island we had submerged again. It was unpleasant warm and our surrounding heated up even more. Especially Bepo had problems with the heat. Well, that was hardly a surprise with his thick fur, after all he was a polar bear. And somehow I felt kind of sorry for him. I guess it was rather hard to live as a polar bear on a submarine which was, of course, quite often underwater and heated up just as often.

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I met Law as I walked into the galley. Exactly as I had wished to. He was drinking a tea, it was the perfect time to ask him because that meant that he was definitely relaxed at the moment:

"Trafalgar, could we surface soon? I think Bepo is going crazy in this heat and, I mean, we're already five days underwater!"

"We are going to surface in an hour." Puh. Thank god! In that case Bepo could finally take a fresh breath and we could aerate the submarine.

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It was noon as we eventually emerged. The sun was up and no cloud was seen in the wonderful clear blue sky. Bepo jumped out from the door with opened arms and enjoyed the slight breeze. That was so cute! Bepo was such a cute bear, so cuddly! I really had problems sometimes to refrain myself from embracing and cuddling Bepo and never letting go again.

I walked to the rail and watched what was forward, the open ocean and... a slight shadow? Weird. I tried to take a closer look but was still only able to see a weak shadow. Should I tell Law? Maybe it was an island! But it could not be, we were to reach the next island not until four days from now. Maybe a ship? The more I thought about it, the more I found that I should better tell the captain.

"Captain! Over there is something!" Law approached me.

"Where?" I showed him the direction where I saw the shadow and he tried to spot what it was as well. After a few minutes we could finally make out a ship and Trafalgar ordered us to get ready for a fight. And then we just waited. And waited... And the ship drove past us ignoring our presence fully. Irritation found its way into our minds.

The men on the ship seemed to work normally and noticed us not in the least. Not even one look was thrown our way. Did they really not notice us? Was our yellow submarine not already conspicuous enough? The whole crew was confused and Law looked like he did not like it one bit. He thought while rubbing his nose bone. His eyes could not be seen as his head was lowered and his hat throw a dark shadow over most of his face.

I just took the initiative. I did not know what was going on but I had gone through many weird things on the Grandline already and also heard a lot of stories in the past. I could slightly remember something similar to this situation.

So I got ready and threw a boat hook over to the other ship. And just as I thought the hook moved right through the ship. An illusion! Ghosts? The captain had watched my doing together with the rest of the crew.

"What was that just now?", one of the men, Shachi, asked nobody in certain.

"An illusion. I remember having heard of it once. A ghost ship.", I answered thoughtfully.

"And where did that thing come from?" Well, that was exactly what I wanted to know, too...

"I don't know, I just know that there are rumors about a ghost ship which appears in some areas from time to time. I think there was something about a treasure and a curse or so. That is all I remember having heard." The absolute truth. I heard it in a bar on an island on the Grandline in my old days.

"A curse. Interesting."

Yeah, really interesting. I turned my eyes to the front again and noticed a thick mist which emerged from the sea around us and encased our submarine. I could not see anymore as the fog got even thicker and thicker by the time. The men behind me noticed it as well.

"Captain, mist is approaching and surrounding us. It is getting thicker. What do we do now?", asked Penguin, he was the helmsman on board and, together with Shachi, one of the mechanics.

"We remain on our course and submerge again!" Actually there should be no island on our course but somehow I was not so sure about that right now. Hopefully the curse was only a rumor and nothing more.