Sabaody Archipelago Arc

The Shabody Archipeligo arc is the nineteenth story arc in the manga and anime series One Piece.

The Grand Line's Halfway Mark
Many days after departing from the Florian Triangle and the ghost ship of Thriller Bark, the Straw Hats continue to follow the log post in the direction pointing since the last set on Water 7. After making their way across many bizarre elements and fighting massive Sea Kings, they finally arrive directly above the compass's pointed location, where Fishman Island is supposed to be. However, instead of finding the long-sought destination, the Straw Hats encountered something more imposing: the Red Line, the continent that circled the main meridian of the world. Having entered the Grand Line originally at Reverse Mountain at the other end of the Red Line, this meant that the crew had traveled half-way around the Grand Line with the continent the only block preventing them from getting into the New World, and ultimately, to both Luffy's dream of becoming Pirate King and new crewmate Brook's dream of getting back to Reverse Mountain and reuniting with Laboon.

Unfortunately, being right in front of the massive dividing continent meant several problems for the stuck pirate crew. For one thing, the Red Line showed no means to cross right into the New World. For another, the position they were on around the continent was close to many of the crucial government landmarks, including the holy land of Marie Joie and Marine Headquarters. With the continuing log post pointing downwards, Luffy, Robin and Brook decided to use the ship's Shark Submerge to search for any signs of Fishman Island, only to find nothing after reaching the limit of 5000 meters except an angry rabbit Sea King! Chased to the surface by the creature, Luffy defeats it easily with his Gomu-Gomu no Rifle, which made it spit out a small mermaid (which landed right on a super-excited Sanji) and a starfish. The mermaid, revealed to be named Camie, introduced herself by trying to offer them for sale takoyaki. (as previously revealed in a cover story arc, she is the assistant for Hatchan's Takoyaki 8 stand)

Camie,while oboard with her talking starfish Pappug ,calls Hatchan, but his dendenmushi is possesed by someone else.The Macro Fishmen have caught Hatchan and want to sell him.Camie wishes to save him and Luffy says come along.

Camie uses her ability to be able to speak with fish and navigates the ship towards Grove 44 ,where Hatchan is suposedly held.On the way they are atacked by the Flying Fish Riders ,who remark that they found the strawhats,after whom the searched for so long.They then report this,to their gangs base,where their leader,Duval remarks he will kill "the man who destroyed his life".

The Flying Fish Riders attacking the Straw Hats dissapear from their encounter whilst the crew are pondering why they had dissapered and planning how to deal with them when they next meet, except for luffy being excited about the flying fish and wanting to ride one and Camie worried about Hatchan and Papag reasuring her that he would be alright.

the Macro Fishmen tried to speak to Duval why he call them to retreat and replied by shooting harpoons at them whilst he rants about the man who ruined his life striking fear into his own crew as well as the fishmen.

Macro himself tries to calm down Duval for the stupidity of his own crew but Duval congratulates them for revealing the Straw Hats to him meanwhile Hatchan former Arlong Pirate crew member now Takoyaki salesman who is tied up infront of Duval is both concerned about Camie and also afraid of hearing the strawhat name mentioned again.

The Sunny go is spotted near the base and duval is informed that "That Man" is aboard the ship whilst Hatchan is tried to bribe Macro with Takoyaki to release hime but it does not work.

As the sunny go nears the base Camie is worried that her friend is alright Sanji goes lovestruck promising Camie that he will rescue her friend, Camie mentions how many time she got caught by Macro crew (at least 30 times) making Usopp exagirate about the number of times captured as well as being eaten up by sea kings as well.

As the straw hats enter the base they notice it is too quiet and they find out that the base is not an island but a small vilaage built in the middle of the sea, Camie and Papug call out hatchan and the macro pirates but the octopus fishman see the jolly roger of the straw hats and covers himself in his own ink to disguse himself to protect his friends.

The straw hats know that the whole place is screaming "trap" at them but Camie and Papag freaks out when Franky yells at them of how they could be so blind of the obvious. The find Haccin in a cage right in front them warning them about the trap.

The Straw hats recognise the voice and shape of the octopus and Sanji tricks him to about Arlong and his crew revealing to the crew that Camie's friend Hacchin is really their enemy Hatchan of the Arlong pirates.

Luffy however is between his memories of the past as well as his own appitite and Camie is exited that they know him but Zolo sates that they are not his friends and Nami is considering to turn away but this makes Camie unhappy and Papug angry at the straw hats calling them nitwits and both jump in to the sea only to be immediatly captured by the Macro pirates which makes Usopp shocked and makes Sanji and Hatchan angry.

Nami convinces the crew to save Camie and Papag with luffy's eyes turning into Takoyaki balls shocking usopp in the process.

Duval orders the Flying Fish Riders to attach whilst luffy rescues Camie and Papag using his devil fruit abilities and orders Zolo to free Hatchan and orders the rest Straw hats to Battle.

hatchan warns Camie and Papug to get out of the way while the macro are fuming that they will get Camie back and luffy says that he is ready for them all with camie and papug cheering for him.

Zolo, Sanji and Chopper get ready as dozens of Flying Fish Riders emerge all around the Sunny-go. Luffy however amazed by the fish tries to find a fresh fish and grabs one by holding on to the rider.

However the Flying Fish Riders have begun to bombard the ship leaving Sanji to deflect all of the bombs being dropped on them, sanji comments about them dropping bombs and a lady while nami tells them to fold the sails, chopper tells sanji that luffy is on one of the fish and sanji tells him to ignore him.

Luffy manages to pilot one of the fish but the attack leader orders the entire crew to dive underwater including luffy. Chopper and Brook try to save hime only to realise that they can't swim, this infuriates both Nami and Franky who resue them who complain about extra work that those 3 caused.

The Macro pirates see a window of oportunity and try to capture Camie again only for them to find out that Zolo had freed Hatchan from his cage when they were not looking, the Macro pirates talk tough to Hatchan only for him uppercut them into the air.

The takayoki sellers reunite with tearful apologies but they are attacked by a fish rider only to be saved by Zolo, Hatchan thanks Zolo for rescuing him and tries to apologies of what he did to Zolo at Arlong park.

Usopp is defending the ship with a cannon to shoot down the Flying Fish withh chopper praising his skill but Duval orders to the riders that he will pay a million in medical fees this incentive cause a very large Rider with a Mace to do a Kamikazi dive on the ship leaving Luffy to stop the fish and Sanji to defeat the ride destroying his mace in the process.

As the strawhats find out that there are tons of Flying Fish Riders in the sky, Brook who is ashamed that in his first fight as a Straw Hat pirate that he could not lend a hand, so he unsheaths his blade and jumps high in the sky and using his violing he unleash a musical soundwave that puts the riders as well as chopper and luffy to sleep.

This move allows brook fo a quick attack on the sleeping riders whilst running on water, it also allows luffy to grab a flying fish only to find it and it's rider are asleep which makes him plummet to Duval rooms where Luffy sees his maskless face giving luffy a shock of his life.