Nola



First Appearance: Chapter 255; Episode 168

Norla is a giant snake that lives with the Shandians in Jaya before and after it got knocked into the sky by the Knock-Up Stream.

History
At first she was nothing more then a little normal sized snake and named after Montblanc Norland in honor of the explorer (whom she was also friends with).

After the Knock Up Stream incident and centuries later, Nola had grown to her current gigantic size. She unknowingly took part in the survival game sent by Eneru and is one of the few who manages to reach Upper Yard, which during her trip up there she accidentally eats Luffy (who at first thinks her stomach is a cave), Nami, Aisa and Gan Fall but eventually spits them out. During the climax where Luffy needed to reach Eneru's ship by knocking down the Giant Jack (a giant beanstalk), she helps the heroes by ramming into it, weakening the beanstalk enough for Wiper to give the final blow with his Reject Dial.

Trivia

 * The people of Skypeia call her the "King of the Sky," or "Master of the Sky," even though she is a female and should be called a Queen or Mistress instead. This was not the only case when her gender had been mistaken.  When first spotted by Calgara he remarked "The giant snake had a grandson", a referenced to a comment made by Norland beforehand when they had come across Kashigami's child and Norla's parent ("Hey the giant snake had a son!").  When Calgara is seen on the retelling of the start of the Shadian/Skypiean war, she is correctly referred to as "she".