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It was well into the night before everyone had tuckered themselves out with partying drinking and they laid on the forest floor to go to sleep. The air was filled with the sounds of snoring and mutterings of love from a particular cook. Lucy, though she was very tired, was still awake and watching over them as she thought of home.
She was dragged from her homesick thoughts as Usopp got up and wandered off into the trees, presumably to answer the call of nature. Before she could slip back into thought, she heard Usopp shriek and she ran to him, hand ready on her keys. What she saw was a very freaked out Usopp who was pointing at the ship.
"G-g-g-g-ghost!" he exclaimed.
"Ghost!" Lucy squeaked in response, paling as she turned towards the ship She sighed in relief when she didn't see anything. Then she slapped Usopp upside his head. "Baka! Don't scare me like that! That's not very nice to do!"
"B-b-but I really saw something on the ship!" Usopp said defensively.
Lucy waved it off. "It was probably just your mind playing tricks. I'm going to bed now, and so should you." said Lucy, walking off to leave Usopp to his business. She paused for a moment. There was something at the back of her mind that was nudging at her thoughts, but she was too tired to figure out what it was at the moment though and instead just continued on her way to bed.
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The next morning, the Straw Hats woke up to find the damages caused to the ship by the fight with one of the priests were repaired and the Going Merry was back to its original appearance. At first, they all thought Usopp did it, being the only one with any repairing skills in their whole group, but he insisted that he didn't and that he'd seen a figure on the ship last night. This perturbed them a bit, seeing as someone mysterious had repaired their ship while they were all sleeping, which was scary enough as they were enemy territory, but also made it seem like they had a hidden ally, someone who knew what the ship looked like before.
Lucy was the only one who wasn't so certain about this. However, they had bigger concerns, so they pushed the problem aside for now. They decided to split up. Chopper, Zoro, Luffy, and Robin all headed south into the forest while Nami, Sanji, Lucy, and Usopp got on the Going Merry to head to the Upper Yard with Gan Fall.
As the ship sailed on the cloud strip that lead to the Upper Yard, Lucy thought about this strange feeling she'd been sensing since she arrived in this world. Well, the feeling hadn't been constant, going away when she left the ship, but it had grown slightly stronger since she'd arrived. It wasn't so dissimilar to the feeling she got from Loke before he became one of her spirits. What she couldn't figure out however, was why the feeling stemmed from the ship.
While she was thinking about this, she consequently missed Gan Fall's lecture on Impact Dials, though she supposed she could always ask for an explanation on it later if she ever needed it. And then "God" showed up and began talking to Gan Fall about how he no longer needed the island before leaving, or started to leave anyway. Just as Lucy was wondering if that was all that he'd come here for, Sanji kicked off, no pun intended, and attacked Enel. The fight only lasted an instant, Sanji ending up on the deck, defeated and smoking from being electrocuted.
Nami, Lucy, Gan Fall, and Usopp stared on in horror. Usopp rushed over to Sanji and put his ear to his chest to see if he could hear the chef breathing. There was a brief moment of terror when Usopp turned them and told them he couldn't hear anything . . . then she almost Lucy Kicked him into the spirit realm when he realized he'd checked the wrong side. Nami seemed to share the sentiment. They all sighed in relief when Usopp checked the correct side and informed them that Sanji still, in fact, had a heartbeat.
Feeling the need to protect their friend, Lucy and Usopp both got ready to fight Enel. Lucy summoned her newest celestial spirit, Capricorn, before getting out her whip and Usopp readied his slingshot. Seriously, what kind of weapon was a slingshot? Though Lucy supposed her whip was barely any better. As if there had been an unspoken countdown, all three of them attacked at once . . . and they failed miserably.
Enel electrocuted them all with his powers. Capricorn disappeared, going back to the spirit realm to recover, Usopp fell on conscious and smoking to the ground, and Lucy collapsed, barely conscious and paralyzed, to the deck of the Going Merry. Lucy watched with darkening vision as two guys who looked suspiciously like white balls came onto the ship and Enel left them to deal with Nami and Gan Fall before losing consciousness.
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Lucy groaned in pain when she woke up. Every single nerve ending in her body ached. It was like the time she took a hit from destroying one of those orbs when Laxus created the Palace of Thunder during the Magnolia festival. Lightning was very painful, surprisingly enough. She opened her eyes to see Conis hovering over her.
" . . . Conis?" she asked.
"You're awake!" Conis said happily. She turned to someone who was off to the side. "Father, Lucy's awake!"
So Pagaya was here as well. This thought was confirmed as his weathered and bearded face entered her field of view. "Thank goodness. You and your friends took quite a hit. They're not awake yet, but they'll be fine."
Lucy sat up. She kind of wished Wendy was here . . . as well as the rest of her friends. A sudden wave of homesickness came over her. She sighed and looked around. Extra crispy Usopp and Sanji were lying next to her, whom Nami was currently caring for, though she also seemed happy that Lucy was conscious. Pagaya had said they would be fine, and she figured if she was fine, they'd be okay too. However, Pierre and Gan Fall were gone. There also seemed to be a little girl on the ship.
"Where's Gan Fall? And who's she?" Lucy asked, putting a hand to her aching head.
"Gan Fall went to help the fighting." said Nami, answering Lucy's first question.
It was Conis who answered her second question. "This is Aisa, we picked her up when her dial boat shut down." she explained.
For some reason, Aisa tried to run away not long after, resulting in Nami chasing after her. Lucy followed, though she didn't know why she did it, she just did . . . and then they were attacked by a giant snake. Great, first guerillas attacking the ship, being carried off by a giant crab, sharks leaping out of the clouds, mysterious figures fixing the Going Merry, then she and her friends got electrocuted by a pale guy with 4 foot long earlobes and a god complex, and now to top it all off, they were now being chased by a GIANT SNAKE!
Using Nami's newly acquired waver, Aisa, Lucy, and Nami all tried to escape from the snake by going deeper into the jungle, but it was going too slow, carrying two fully grown women and a child. Telling Nami to keep Aisa safe, she jumped off the waver and summoned the Bull spirit, Taurus, and activated her magical whip, preparing to fight the snake. That was all well and good, but the heroics were kind of lost when Taurus was crushed, forcing him to return to the Celestial Realm . . . and then she got swallowed by the snake. Oh this day just kept getting better and better!
Disgusting as being inside a snake was, it was actually kind of amazing. There were ancient ruins and tons of treasure, though Lucy was pretty sure snake should have er . . . dispelled most of the treasure. She was torn from her thoughts about . . . nature when she heard Luffy's voice. She followed the sound until she met up with him. Soon enough, they were joined by Gan Fall, Pierre, Nami, and Aisa. And then their world started spinning, literally. They couldn't tell from inside the snake, but Enel had just used his devil fruit powers to blast a hole in the layer of clouds they were on resulting in the snake, as well as Zoro, Wyper, and Robin, falling to the clouds below.
Somehow, Lucy, Nami, and Gan Fall escape . . . though they accidentally left behind Pierre, Luffy and Aisa . . . whoops. Then the python got electrocuted. 'WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN!?' Lucy wailed in her head as she ran after Gan Fall. Nami hid behind the rubble while Lucy and Gan Fall joined Wyper, Robin, and Zoro in facing off against Enel.
He looked over all of them. "Hmm, 7 survivors, I predicted there would be 6 survivors of this game and there are three minutes until time is up, one of you shall have go. So, who should it be?" Enel asked them.
'Game? Has this really all been just a game to him?! Sanji and Usopp almost died, and Zoro and Robin look like hell, and he says this is all just a game to him?! I won forgive him! I won't forgive him for hurting my friends!' Lucy thought to herself.
As if by some unseen signal, Gan Fall, Lucy, Zoro, Robin, and Wyper chorused, "You." while glaring at the pretentious man who called himself a god.
Seemingly ignoring them, Enel began to explain why he was going to destroy Skypiea, because living in the sky was unnatural and he had to keep the natural order of things because he was god. The more he talked, the more Lucy was convinced that the man was insane. When Gan Fall had had enough of Enel's talk, he attacked him . . . and was promptly defeated.
Enel smiled. "Time's up, 6 survivors." he said, gloating over his correct prediction.
Lucy was about to summon one of her spirits and attack him, Zoro and the other guy seemed ready to do the same but it seemed Robin wanted to talk him out of destroying the island, using the golden bell as an excuse. Lucy supposed it was all well enough to try to talk him out of destroying an entire island an killing hundreds, probably thousands, of people. Enel didn't seem to like that. He told her that he already knew where the bell was and informed her that he hated manipulative women before attacking her with lightning.
It happened too fast for anyone to react quick enough, Zoro caught her as she fell though laying her on the ground. He drew his swords so he could attack him, and Lucy hand almost summoned Loke but Wyper beat them to the chase. Wyper used seastone to disable his logia abilities, wrapping his legs around Enel so he couldn't get away before using a powerful impact dial, one that was thought to be long gone, a Reject Dial.
They both fell back, Wyper unconscious, and Enel dead . . . or at least they thought so for a moment, then his body crackled with electricity before sitting up. Suddenly, Zoro attacked him. Lucy didn't know what the stupid swordsman was thinking, but she knew what was coming and moved to stop it.
"Zoro!" Lucy shouted as she jumped in front of him, just in time to take the blast of lightning that had been directed at Zoro.
Zoro stared wide eyed at her. She had just jumped in the path of Enel's lightning to protect him and he couldn't believe his own eyes when Lucy groaned in pain and began to stand back up. Enel didn't to believe it either.
"Don't . . . You dare . . . Hurt . . . My friends . . . Again." she told him panting from the effort of standing . . . right before Enel hit her with a second blast of lightning, causing her to lose consciousness.
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A/N: I know there wasn't a whole lot of dialogue in this chapter, but I can't remember this Arc for shit and I don't have the time to go back rewatch this arc, so I used the One Piece Wikia's summary of the arc because I wanted this chapter to have some substance to it and not feel rushed. In the next chapter I plan to wrap up this arc and give Lucy 7 new celestial spirits of my own creation. She will also begin training in armed combat with Zoro, and in unarmed combat with Luffy.
