Nola

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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.

Appearance
Norland is a giant Python, bigger then most buildings and is long enough to reach out to the sky well above the trees of Skypiea (which alone are massive in size themselves). Her head alone is large enough that people may dance on top of it and her insides are so large they form a tunnel big enough for people to walk side by side down with no room restrictions. She is blue in colour with a single row of white hair either side along her body.

At first she was nothing more then a little normal sized snake.

Personality
Norla is noted to be hot tempered and easily aggressive towards everything, attacking what crosses her path. Her foreboding and fearsome stance has earned her the title of "King of the Sky".

Though fierce and volient, deep beneath her beatly shell lies a much gentler creature. When she was young she used to call out to the Shandorian Golden Belfry Bell as the sound made her happy. Upon hearing the bell for the first time in four hundred years, she proceeds to become much happier and once again returned to her gentle self she had been as a child singing out to the sound of the bell.

She is later seen after Enel's defeat dancing round a fire with the Shandians and Skypieans (some of which were on her head). This is a sharp contrast in the previous attitude where she just attacked everything.

Friends
She was fond of Norland and Calgara. When she awoke from being knocked out by the trials, her memories of her childhood and seeing them walking away from her with her in persuit made her charge at Giant Jack with tears in her eyes.

She appears to have befriended Conis, Asia and Laki and was seen taking a stroll with them in the Where are they now? mini-series.

Family
Norla grandaughter of Kashigami, the previous "God" of the Shandians. Her mother was "Jaya".

Powers and Abilities
Norla is a powerful beast able to best even strong warriors like Wiper and Zoro easily. Though she is strong, her strength is not superior to the destructive force of a Reject dial, as evidence of her failure to knock over Giant jack. On top of her incrediable strength, she also emits a powerful corrosive vemon from her mouth.

History
Norla was orginally discovered by Calgara who pointed her out to Norland and referred to her as Kashigami's grandson. Norla lived in the remains of the city of Shandora and would follow Calgara and Norland around. Every time the bell of Shandora was rung, she would call out to the sky in happines. After Norland had left the Shandians later at some point had discovered she was female, she was also named "Norla" after Norland. When part of Jaya island was ent into the sky, she was taken along with it.

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".
 * Norla is one of the oldest living creatures on the One Piece world and the oldest seen so far, being 400 years old (which is older then the giants who live for 300 years).