The knock-up stream took them and against all logical odds, they survived.
They somehow survived the trip to the white sea. The ship took damage and lost most of the additions made by Cricket and Ussop to make the journey in the first place. The Straw-Hats and Revolutionary's shook their heads to clear the cob webs.
Chopper was the first one to look around. "Woah! Look at this everyone! We're floating on clouds!" He exclaimed excitedly. The white sea was just that, miles upon miles of fluffy white clouds flowing like water as the ship slowly sailed.
"Wow!" The other straw hats said in awe with the two revolutionary's mirroring their sentiments. It was the first time that any of them have been to the white sea.
"So the knock-up stream worked! We made it!" Shouted Luffy as he jumped around the ship to look out into the fluffy horizon.
Koala spun around angrily, "Wait! You knew about the knock-up stream and still got hit buy it?!" She shouted both shocked at their idiocy and angry that they didn't even try to avoid it she was huffing and Sabo jumped in to calm her before she started attacking them with Fishman Karate.
"I'm sure it was an accident." Placated Sabo with a nervous smile, he didn't want to be on the receiving end of her wrath and he certainly didn't want his baby brother hurt for a mistake.
Luffy tilted his head in confusion. "Accident?" He asked with a frown. Behind Sabo and Koala were Ussop and Nami who were waving their hands frantically and shaking their heads.
"We planned on getting caught in the knock-up stream." Said Luffy freezing both his brother and Koala in place. "We wanted to come to a sky island! Now you're with us, Sabo!" Cheered Luffy not noticing how his words were affecting the two revolutionaries.
Sabo walked over calmly before smashing he pipe only Luffy's head, "Why the hell did you bring us if you knew where you were going to do that!" Shouted Sabo with shark like teeth. He was knocked out of his shock when his attack on Luffy shattered his head into ice.
Luffy quickly reformed his head, "I thought you'd have fun with us Sabo!" Whined Luffy.
"Do you have a devil fruit?!" Shouted Sabo in surprise.
Luffy shrugged, " Yeah, it's the Chilly Chilly Fruit. Ace has the Flame Flame Fruit."
"Awesome!" Cheered Sabo with a huge grin on his face. All anger forgotten as he started breaking Luffy and watching him reform with his icy powers. "Now I want one!"
Koala sighed tiredly as she saw Sabo lose all anger as he played with his brother's devil fruit powers. She guessed that the fact that they were stuck in a sky island with no real way to return to the sea. Perfect.
After a few minutes Sabo stoped playing with Luffy and started to look around at their environment with the same wonderment as the rest of the Straw-Hats with Koala quickly following suit.
Sabo bent over the side to feel the clouds. "They're thick and soft, I feel like we could swim in the clouds." He ran his fingers through the fluffy white clouds.
"Really? How cool would it be to swim through clouds!" Shouted Koala with a smile before she shouted in horror.
Everyone heard her and turned to see her bending over the side of the ship. "Sabo! Sabo are you still alive come back Sabo!" She screamed as she reached out toward the cloudy sea.
"Did he fall in!?" Worried Nami trying to find Sabo in the white seas.
"No! The moron jumped in!" Koala growled angrily while trying to see into the thick white sea.
Luffy laughed while shaking his head. "Sabo's become even more fun! He used to be the one to stop me from doing these kinds of things." He snickered, completely unconcerned with the danger Sabo was in.
Sabo surfaced in the clouds and quickly grabbed Koala's outstretched hands. He sat down with his back to the railing as he caught his breath.
"So I could swim but it was difficult to resurface. If I wasn't as fast as I am I think I would have fell all the way down." Sabo informed them with a grimace, that was much too close to death for his comfort. It was thanks to his immense strength and speed that allowed him to actually make it back, anyone else and he was sure that they wouldn't have come back.
The righthand man of the revolutionary was nailed with a strong right hook from his fellow freedom fighter. "You idiot! You know how stupid that was! Ooooh you're lucky that I would miss you otherwise I think I'd kill you for that!" Yelled Koala with rage and worry present in her eyes as she continued to rain down attacks onto Sabo's head.
"Ah, don't worry about it." Replied Sabo waving his friend off nonchalantly. He was more embarrassed by Koala than affected by the near death experience.
Koala was going to continue her tirade when Ussop shouted out. "I think there's someone coming!" He was pointing out into the distance toward a large ship that was being approached by a single person.
Everyone else looked out to see someone gliding on the clouds in the distance. They could barely make out that who ever it was, they were wearing tribal clothes. He had a cannon like weapon over his shoulder and was moving fast.
"Wonder what the locals here are like?" Asked Robin curiously, she was interested by a society that had existed in the sky and the differences they would have with the people who came from the blue sea.
Nami rubbed her arms worriedly, "I hope they aren't going to try and kill us. For once I want an island where the locals aren't homicidal maniacs!" She looked to see that Chopper and Ussop nodded in agreement, they too wanted to relax on an island for once.
"He's not heading for us, look over there." Said Sanji while pointing out towards their right.
In the distance was another ship, it was slightly damaged but was still managing to sail smoothly on the clouds towards the incoming man.
The masked man launched himself into the air and the cannon like weapon started to glow at one end. The pirates on the ship seeing that they were about to be attacked started firing on the masked man, the glowing cannon then started to release a bit of smoke.
Before the pirates could do anything, the masked msn finally launched his attack. The cannon like weapon released a dense stream of fire that blasted right though the pirate ship killing most of the pirates and destroying the ship sentencing the rest of the pirates to die to the long fall back to the blue sea.
The rapid and shocking turn of events caused some of the Straw-Hats to cry out in fear and the rest of them to ready themselves for combat.
"He's coming this way!" Shouted Zoro before putting his sword in his mouth.
Sanji lit his cigarette and Luffy got in a ready stance, even Sabo and Koala were focused on their incoming opponent.
"Who ever this is he's got Haki so be careful Luffy." Warned Sabo as he felt his assailant's spirit with his Observation Haki.
Luffy narrowed his eyes in focus, he wouldn't let attacks hit him if that was the case. He'd have to take this fight even more serious.
The masked man jumped onto the deck of the ship and smacked Zoro over the head with his shoulder cannon. Sanji was kicked in the face, Luffy was punched across the ship and Sabo lashed out with his pipe only for the masked man to catch it and kick him away.
The masked man jumped back and started charging his shoulder canon to finish off the pirates. The downed pirates were trying to stand back up to stop the man but it was for not as they couldn't catch their breath.
Before the cannon toting man could fire, a winged horse descended from the sky and a lance wielding knight riding atop of it attacked the masked man causing him to release the fire blast but it was directed towards the sky rather than the ship. The two locked eyes for a single moment before the masked man fled from the armored fighter.
"What the hell was that you guys!? You all got taken out like it was nothing!" Nami shouted angrily towards the monstrous trio who were slowly sitting up.
The masked knight removed his helmet and turned to the pirates. "It is not their fault young lady, you blue sea folk aren't accustom to the air density at these heights. It will likely take a few days for you all to acclimate." His voice had an authority to it but his soft smile eased their nerves.
"Actually I'm feeling better." Luffy said standing back up as he took a few deep breaths.
Sanji adjusted his cloak and stood up. "Yeah I don't feel winded anymore."
"I gonna kick that guy's ass next time I see him." Zoro growled, quite angry that he was defeated so easily.
Sabo walked over to the sky knight. "What's your name? Thanks for helping us too."
The knight absently patted his horse. "You may call me the Sky knight. I'm but an old man trying to save his homeland." He replied while putting his helmet back on.
"Save from what old man knight?" Asked Luffy curiously he didn't think that the masked man was truly that dangerous.
The knight looked down sadly. "God." He whispered darkly while his hands gripped his lance tightly, "In the upper yard he has taken over our country and is tormenting my people. The masked man who attacked you just now was a local man apart of a tribe known as the Shandia, they have been opposing God for years."
'GOD!?' Mentally shouted Ussop, Chopper and Nami, terrified at the prospect of fighting a deity.
Luffy jumped up towards the old man. "God? You mean a real God? Like a God?" He questioned completely lost at the prospect of an actually God terrorizing people. He didn't even think they were real.
"I don't believe in any God." Grunted Zoro with narrowed eyes toward the Sky Knight. To him it was all starting to sound suspicious.
"Actually," Sabo started gathering attention from everyone. "From what I know of Sky Islands, some cultures refer to their leaders as God. So he is probably just a guy who's in charge like a dictator." Cleared up Sabo, while trying to feel around the area for strong presences with his Haki.
"So it's not a God then." Nodded Luffy as he put his fallen hat back on his head.
"Why not gather people to fight back? You obviously aren't the only one opposing him." Questioned Robin with a curious look on her face.
The knight jumped up to his horse. "He may not be an actual god but his powers of lightning are incredibly powerful. Then there is his ability to avoid all attacks and take no damage."
'Logia.' Thought all of the blue sea pirates with a grimace, a lightning Logia sounded incredibly deadly. Unlike Crocodile lightning didn't have any natural weaknesses to exploit, the only thing that would work would be Haki or a stronger element.
The Sky Knight reached into his pack and took out a silver whistle. "I will gift you this whistle. Normally I charge a few for this but the first one I'm willing to pass this onto you for free. If you use it I will come to help, farewell blue sea children." With that the stripped horse sprouted winds and few off.
They were silent for a few moments as the turn of events sunk into their minds.
"That was one weird looking horse." Nami said lamely.
"What the hell was that!" Yelled Blackbeard as he and his crew washed up on a cloudy island. He checked himself over and felt un injured, his crew were stirring and began to slowly stand back up.
"Captain what happened." Questioned Burgess while looking around. "Are we really in the sky?"
"I've heard story of these Sky Islands," Said Van Auger the sniper. "This must be one of them, what a peculiar situation we've been thrusted into. Lafitte will have a hard time finding us." He tone was far more calm that one would normally have in such a situation.
Doc Q gave his horse Stronger a pat on the head as he sprawled over it. "We should find a way down." He groaned as the pain in his body increased.
Blackbeard looked around, he was familiar with Sky Islands, nearly a decade ago he went with the Whitebeard pirates up to one in the new world. That being said, he knew it was both a pain in the ass to get in and out of them.
Before the crew could do anything a stream of flame was fired at them. The crew managed to avoid the blast without injury and they jumped into action in an instant.
The masked man, who's weapon was steaming from the heat, swung his mace down in a powerful arc. Unfortunately, the man was interrupted by several thing. The second he came into view his arms and legs were pierced by bullets and he was punched from behind by a monstrous fist.
Finally he was pulled forward by a swirling black hole. Right into the waiting arms of Blackbeard.
"Zehahahaha! You're gonna give us some information on this place!" He said with a toothless grin laughing out for the world to hear.
A large man lounged on a couch, he was shirtless and had earlobes dangling down to his chest. He had an amused look in his eyes as he felt outward with his mantra. He reached out for an apple and took a bite as he chuckled.
"It would seem," He started before swallowing his apple bite. "That two groups of ants from the blue sea have climbed up to god's playground."
"My Lord!" Came a servant who's name he didn't even bother to learn shout as he ran up and bowed face down onto the ground. "Intruders have entered—AHHH!" A bolt of lightning crashed down from the heavens killing the meaningless servant.
"I know what's happening, stupid human." Enel mentioned darkly with power crackling around him, oh how he hated to be interrupted.
Though, the intruders that were with that foolish Gan Fall in the White Sea were of no real concern, a couple of them did have interesting voices but they were nothing to God. But the other intruders, one of them, possessed a certain darkness to them, it was strange.
But most strange, was the fact that the man with Darkness, was sensing him with his own mantra. 'It would seem that a threat from the Blue Sea has come forth to my Kingdom. How amusing.'
With all of this realized, Enel's carefree smirk never left his face. He tossed away the apple that he had bitten into and reached for a new one and took a bite. He could tell that between the tribe of fools who seemed to be planning something- he really should see about that, Gan Fall and the intruders being in one place was going to make things really amusing in the coming time.
"I do hope I will be entertained." The man called God said as he tossed his apple away to bite into a fresh one.
As the Going Merry sailed in the direction of the nearest person, something Sabo told them, they took in the strange surroundings. Kilometers of endless white flowing clouds with even more above them, the air was thinner but tasted cleaner than anything they've ever tasted.
Luffy, however, was trying to figure out how his brother could tell them where another person was. "Sabo, how'd you know where another person is? Did you do it with Haki?" Asked Luffy.
Sabo nodded, "Yes, I'm quite skilled with Observation Haki, but I have mastery over Armament Haki." Answered Sabo with a smile.
"Oh really!" Shouted Luffy excitedly. "I used that Armament stuff back when I fought Crocodile, could you help me with it?"
"You have Haki?" Asked Sabo with surprise on his face before he was further shocked. "You fought a logia wielding warlord WITHOUT Haki!" He shouted, horrified by his brothers recklessness.
Nami patted Sabo on his back which made him sigh, they were all familiar with Luffy's recklessness apparently.
Sabo shook his head with a tired sigh, "I can show you how to tap into it, but it will be up to you to master it." He offered. Dragon was very adamant about people gaining skill on their own with only slight instruction that way they would be self sufficient. Sabo planned on giving Luffy the same treatment. Unfortunately, he knew how dumb his brother could be.
His little brother just cheered happily and went back to looking around, happy that he was finally going to be able to learn about the Haki stuff. Off to the side after hearing that Sabo was capable of teaching Haki, Zoro jumped up to go train while a capable instructor was on board. He needed to awaken his Haki before Sabo left.
"Land! Er, solid Cloud ahead!" Shouted Ussop who was up in the crows nest.
The rest of them ran to the front of the ship to see. In the distance was a huge waterfall made of clouds, with a sign in front of it reading Heaven's Gate. It was a breathtaking image that no one could put it into words.
"Amazing." Said Nami in awe, she'd never dreamt of something like this.
Robin beside her sketched what she was seeing on her pad to hopefully remember this sight forever. Chopper and Ussop couldn't form words as they took in the environment of the wonderland they were in.
"I never dreamt that one day I would be in a boat thousands of meters in the sky sailing on clouds going to a waterfall of dreams to sail to heaven." Said Luffy with the happiest grin on his face at the amazing turn of events, all of which were becoming more and more exciting.
Everyone on the ship looked at him oddly. "Does anyone ever think things like that?" Question Nami with a strange look on her face, when he said what they were doing out loud it actually sounded ridiculous.
"None of the Grand Line and most certainly the New World, make any sense." Informed Sabo with an amused smile on his face. He's seen an entire island that was under the effects of a perpetual lightning storm. This was hardly enough to constitute shock from him anymore.
As they neared the landmass in front of the waterfall they noticed an only lady walking towards them. She was very short and very wrinkly, it looked like she had a smile on her face but with all of the wrinkles it could have been what she looked like.
"Old Lady! We want to go to Skypiea!" Luffy shouted to the old lady. The Straw Hats weren't even surprised by his lack of manners, some didn't even care as that was how they would have asked themselves. Sabo however was shaking his head in disappointment at his little brothers poor manners, he had hoped that Luffy would have at least some manners by now.
The old lady snapped a picture of them before speaking. "There is a toll to pass to the white-white sea. It will be 1 billion extol per person wanting to go up."
"NO!" Screamed Nami, "I don't know what a billion extol is in beli but I refuse to pay that, we're pirates let's just go up." Said their Navigator/Financial Advisor firmly to her captain.
Instead of being angry Luffy tilted his head at his orange haired Navigator. "I thought we were pretty broke and thats why we shouldn't pay." He said while rubbing his chin in thought.
The old lady's wrinkles wrinkled further tipping them off that she was making a facial expression. "If that is what you want then I shall arrange free travel for your journey to the white-white sea." Said the wrinkly old lady.
"Great!" Exclaimed Luffy. "Thanks old lady!"
While the pirates were waiting for whatever form of transport that was coming to arrive they began talking about what they might see up at the higher level.
"I bet beautiful angels are waiting to ravage me." Swooned Sanji causing Koala who was standing next to the cook to take a step away.
Moving on from Sanji's strange words Chopper grinned happily. "I hope they have cloud cotton candy!" The Reindeer shouted while starting to drool at the thought of the heavenly sweats.
Luffy was going to add something but then thought about the possibility of sky meat and began drooling himself.
Robin was going to comment herself but she froze at the sight of a massive crab appearing out of the clouds that started coming toward them. The rest of the more animated crew members and Koala began shouting in fright while Luffy was shouting to Sanji about cooking the crab.
"That's your transport you idiots!" The old lady from the shore shouted out to the crew.
When they heard that they relaxed, at that moment the crab picked up the Going Merry and began carrying them upwards. The novelty of the situation began to wear off and the group began relaxing once again.
"Hey Sabo," Shouted Luffy, "Can you start showing me how to use Armament now while we travel."
"Sure," Answered Sabo as he waved Luffy over. "I'm going to show you Armament, if you all want to watch you can." He said to the other Straw-Hats who were gathering to see the demonstration.
Not ones to pass up a chance to learn about these powers, the Straw Hats sat around the two brothers. Sabo then punched Luffy causing the younger brother's chest to have a fist size hole with ice surrounding it showing that Luffy had turned into his element.
"That was my brother using his logia ability to become ice. Most logia's after they have their fruit for a while can do this instinctively, that is their biggest strength and weakness. An overconfident logia often dies the quickest.
"Never let the fact that Logia fruits are so powerful make you think that you can never beat them. Nature always balances itself out, and natures answer to the logia's is Haki, specifically Armament Haki. Like so-"
Sabo's fist became shiny and metallic looking before he punched his brother once more but this time he made Luffy shout out in surprise.
"Armament Haki doesn't turn off a devil fruit users power." Informed Sabo with a shake of his head. "The only ways to do that is with seastone or submerging them in water. What Armament Haki does is force the part of the person you hit into their human form. This isn't a purely offensive ability, you can also coat a body part that is being attacked to protect yourself."
"What happens when two people with Armament hit each other?" Question Ussop with a raised hand.
"If the users are of equal power, well Haki by definition is spirit, so the winner would be the user with the strongest will and determination. However, more times than not experience and mastery of Haki comes into play and the one with the stronger Haki or superior mastery of their Haki." Answered Sabo. "All that being said, there are likely more things that Armament can do but I don't know all the subtleties of Haki, you would need to ask a true master with far more experience than me."
"Now Luffy, let's begin on teaching you to actually mean to use Haki rather than instinctively."
"Captain! What's the plan? We know how to get down now, we can go and pick up Lafitte." Asked the muscular champion Jesus Burgess.
Blackbeard hummed quietly, "This isn't part of my plans but I think we should meet this God, Eneru. His power could be of use to us. Best case we get a new crew member and worst case we kill him and take his devil fruit."
"I have plenty of apples captain." Input Doc Q while raising a basket of fruit.
"If we are going to stay I think we should meet some of the locals at the higher level first to try and get some intel." Suggested Auger while reloading his rifle.
The champion began to flex and stretch his massive muscles. "I hope we meet some powerful guys up there, I've been itching for a fight. Those losers in Mock Town weren't much." Boasted Burgess with a large grin on his face.
"Zehahahaha! Lets make our way up!" Ordered Blackbeard while pointing to the clouds above them. The small ragtag group of criminals blinked for a moment.
"WE DON'T HAVE A SHIP!" Screamed the Blackbeard Pirates in surprise. They had forgotten that the Knock-up stream had ruined their black raft.
"Then our first order of business is to find a way to get up top!" Ordered Blackbeard. His loyal subordinates shouted their approval while following their leader.
The two hour journey by crab ended and the Straw-Hats found themselves at Angel Beach. The white-white sea was similar to its' lower equivalent but there was a town on the beach and people were walking around. Some were pointing towards them and whispering to each other.
They docked their ship and hopped off to walk to shore. Luffy, Chopper and Robin hurried to shore while the non devil fruit users were playing in the cloud sea.
"I miss being able to swim." Said Luffy with his arms crossed as he watched the others play around in the clouds.
Chopper and Robin didn't have anything to add as both of them ate their fruits at a young age and had forgotten what it was like without them. A few minutes passed and the three fruit users were starting to get impatient.
The Captain got a sly grin on his face and bent down to touch the cloud water. "Ice Wave!" The Ice man exclaimed as his power spread out freezing the clouds, Luffy walked out and smirked down at his shivering crew and brother.
"I think we should head over to that town, who knows what we'll find." He said with a nice smile as his freezing crew shivered their way out of the cloudy sea.
As they got back to the beach there was a women walking towards them. She was blond and dressed in white, the most strange thing about her were the two wings on her back.
"An Angel!" Cheered Sanji about to rush the women before he calmed himself down. Nami's glare in his direction had nothing to do with his change in disposition toward the heavenly angel in front of him.
"Yo, what is there to do around here? You got any food?" Asked Luffy nonchalantly as he approached the women.
The stranger smiled at the new comers. "Welcome to Angel Island, I'm Conis. And there is plenty to do here traveler."
Behind them they heard someone ride up on some sort of self propelled small ship. Once the man got close they noticed it was an older man dressed in robes and had the small wings on his back like Conis.
"Woah! That thing is so cool!" Shouted Luffy while pointing to the wave rider with most of the others thoughts mirroring his words.
The old man walked up to them with a warm smile. "I'm glad you like it, this is one of the many things that Skypiea has to offer."
"I assume that it is powered by dials? I've heard of the sky islands technology known as dials." Asked Sabo as he inspected the rider with a close eye. He may have left HQ to meet back up with his brothers but he couldn't deny the thought that getting a supply of this technology would be beneficial for the revolutionaries.
"Yes it is young man." Replied the old sky island citizen. "I am Pagaya, Conis's father."
The sky island citizens invited the pirates to their home for food which they all quickly accepted. Pagaya offered the pirates a chance to try out the rider if they wanted. Nami was the first to try and to the shock of the locals she was a natural talent capable of using it after a few minutes.
While Nami had her fun on the rider the Straw-Hats and the Revolutionaries were being given a run down on the different types of dials and clouds that were common in Skypiea.
"Where can we buy these?" Asked Ussop in excitement, he was already thinking of a hundred different ideas on how to upgrade his and Nami's weapons with this type of technology.
"In the town center there are venders. Dangerous ones such as impact dials are far more rare, you'd likely have to find one or ask the warriors. I wouldn't recommend asking the warriors for one." She warned them with a frown on her face not giving any more reason to avoid the warriors of Skypiea.
The Shandia Warriors gathered in their camp to discuss the battle plans that Wiper had been working on. Many were slowly starting to lose hope in the war but Wiper's assurances of victory kept them going.
"Hurry up!" Shouted Wiper. Unfortunately Wiper wasn't the most charismatic warrior in the tribe. He has waited long enough to make his move and he wouldn't be forced to wait around for people who were too slow.
The others hustled over to their military leader. They gathered with Kamakiri and Laki standing out as the elites. The other warriors were armed with their weapons and dials of choice and they stood before their leaders.
"Now listen up," Began Wiper gruffly. "We have two groups of intruders from the blue sea, I only met one but they didn't seem like much. That being said we should take them out should the opportunity arise, we don't know their goal and purpose here but we won't let someone try and take our homeland. The other group we have no knowledge of other than the warrior I sent to find them hadn't returned, he has likely fallen."
Everyone bowed their head in silence at their fallen brother. Wiper waited a few moments before he continued.
"With that said the blue sea intruders are to be thought of as dangerous and should be taken out if we have a chance, but they aren't the priority. Aisa has informed us that Enel has killed one of his priests yesterday, meaning that we have one less to deal with. We know that they are scattered around upper yard, but with Aisa we can find them easily." Wiper said and in the back Laki grinned at the mention of her little cousin.
"Tomorrow at dawn we will be going to Upper Yard to take down the priests and that false God Enel!" Roared Wiper getting cheers out of the warriors.
"All of you will be split into three groups that Laki, Kamakiri and I will be leading. The Priest are low in number but they are fearsome, do not underestimate our enemy." He reminded them darkly, too many lives have been lost to those fanatics.
"How will you kill Eneru!?" Question one of the warriors, they could hear the fear in his voice when he asked that. "Killing the priests is great but Eneru is the true problem!"
Wiper nodded. "You are right, I have something that will kill him. A specific stone that our chief has given us that will turn the tide of this never ending war." With that he raised a large claymore like sword and spear that looked to be made of black metal.
"With these weapons, Eneru will fall." Assured Wiper getting his warriors confidence to rise and their war cries to echo through the area. They didn't notice a man sitting behind them in their chief's chair with the elderly chief on the ground with his body badly burnt and smoking.
"I find it truly amusing that you ants think I can't see and hear you, my Mantra is in another league than even that impressive child of yours." While his voice wasn't loud everyone felt those words reverberate down their spines. "Allow me to show you the difference between an ant like you and a God like me."
The warriors, and the elites like Wiper were about to jump into combat when the heavens above them let loose a thundering boom which was followed by a pillar of power that destroyed the entire area in front of Eneru. His face never changed from the amused smile he had when he first arrived.
Blacked bodies were all that was left with a few of the stronger ones groaning in pain. "You fools thought you could kill god." Enel shook his head. "How pitiful." With that Eneru disappeared in a flash of lightning.
The Shandia tribe had been reduced from a proud warrior tribe to a handful of injured men and dozens of dead bodies. A small girl that was in a tent behind the chief's hut walked out to see the destruction and death that was left by Enel. The voices of her people were dangerously quiet. Once proud shouts were now pitiful whispers, while she could feel the stronger ones still breathing there were too many dead to revel in the small win.
She fell to the ground with tears for her fallen people.
Sabo rubbed his head in the middle of his sentence getting everyone to look at him strangely.
"I'm not the best with Observation Haki, but…I think a large group of people were just killed." He said lowly while trying to feel outward.
The Straw hats that heard him looked at him in horror, namely Nami and Ussop. "What do you mean killed!" Shouted the weakling duo.
Everyone who didn't know what was happening turned to Sabo with a questioning glance. "I can feel people slowly dying one by one, and a few seconds ago a large number were silenced in an instant." Sabo said with a grimace.
The monster trio listened with grim expressions while Robin had a stoic look on her face. "What?!" Shouted Ussop is horror, so much for having a peaceful tripe to Skypiea.
"Oh no." Said Pagaya in horror while he sat in his chair. "That could only mean that God has attacked the Shandia Warrior tribe. They are the only large group of people that openly oppose God, he must have decided to wipe them out." Pagaya grimaced at the thought, that would mean that Eneru was getting less and less patient with the citizens of Skypiea if he decided to go out personally rather than send his priests. Very bad news indeed.
"This God, old man." Started Luffy with narrowed eyes. "Why would he kill this tribe?"
It was Conis that answered. "He does what ever he pleases, he even kills his own followers that he doesn't have need for anymore. Eight years ago Enel took the position of God from the previous one and has ruled over us with his unimaginable power. The tribe has been trying to take him down for years."
Luffy frowned deeply at that, no one should harm their own followers and comrades. "I want to take this guy down." The Skypiean's looked at him in shock while his crew had faces of grim determination with Zoro looking the most deadly. Sabo smiled at his brother, he hasn't changed at all, always doing the craziest and most dangerous thing possible without a moments hesitation.
"Then we need to work on your Haki. A Lightning Logia will be a dangerous opponent." Said Sabo with a smile, Koala just shook her head. She would prefer avoiding logia users with god complexes and murderous tendencies but her closest friend always does what he wants so she may as well back him up.
The only thing that was sure was that her time in the sky wasn't going to be as fun as she thought it would be.
CHAPTER END
FLASHES TO THE PAST #1
A seven year old Luffy pouted as Shanks laughed at him while he rubbed his new injury on his cheek.
"Shudup Shanks! This didn't even hurt! I'm the toughest pirate in this bar!" Shouted Luffy holding in the tears of pain from his self inflicted injury.
"Oh come on anchor, we aren't laughing at you. We're laughing at the stupid thing you did. How about a toast to Luffy's stupidity!" He cheered with his men following suit. then the pirates proceeded to drink a much as they physically could.
While the pirates drank, Luffy turned over to a chest next to him and noticed fruit sitting inside of it, he was hungry so he grabbed it and took a big juicy bit. He loved apples.
"Oi Anchor! Don't eat those, they're 25 thousand beli a piece. We bought those back in west blue!" Shouted Shanks reaching over and grabbing the box of fruit that he was dumb enough to leave out in front of a human garbage disposal.
"Your pretty dumb for spending that much on an apple. I know where a bunch of apple trees are." Said Luffy to the Red Haired Captain.
Shanks palmed his face, "Luffy those are a delicacy from a farm that grows them in the soil of an active volcano that purifies the nutrients making the fruit truly perfect. You can't just expect any apple to be as good." He told the young boy tiredly.
Luffy tilted his head in confusion , "So you were tricked into thinking those apples were special then?" He wondered out loud, to him the apple tasted the same as any other. "Your pretty dumb Shanks."
Shanks normally would have brushed off the child's insult but his entire crew began laughing at him for being talked down to by a seven year old making him groan and roll his eyes.
Luffy brightened up and ran out of the bar, about twenty minutes later he came bursting back in with a crate full of apples.
"Shanks! These are special apples that have been grown in the special forest! I'll sell them to you for 10 thousand beli a piece." Offered Luffy while trying to subtly wipe dirt off the apples that he obviously picked up off the ground in the woods.
"Those apples aren't special Luffy you probably picked them up in the woods." Waved off Shanks not even looking at Luffy.
"These apples are just as special as the ones in that box! But I guess even you aren't dumb enough to fall for it twice. Your not as big of an idiot as I thought Shanks." Praised Luffy as he bit into one of his apples.
While the Red Hair Pirate's were roaring in laughter, Shanks pouted in the corner as his number one fan began to turn on him. He was glad Makino was there to console him with another drink.
Alright!
Well that was the first Sky Island Chapter. What did ya think? I will put small sections of the past at the end of chapters to show all the little differences that weren't crazy enough to warrant whole chapters. Or maybe just some Omake's I don't know.
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