The day was a beautiful morning and there was barley a cloud in the sky for miles. The Going Merry sailed along so peacefully. Nami frowned as she looked at her logose to make sure they were on the right track when she screamed. The group crowded around to see what was wrong. The needle was pointing at the sky! "What is going on!?" she asked, assuming it was broken. The others went to respond when suddenly debre started raining down on the ship. Sanji had just lit a cigerette and looked at the strange phenomenon.
"Huh? Is it raining?" he asked, looking into the sky with the other seven crew members. A large gallion was falling toward them from above, upside down ready to crash onto their calm ship. "Oh." he mused seeing what it was. Suddenly the crew burst into action, trying to keep the large mass from crashing onto their ship. Usopp and Chopper clung to each other.
"What's going on?!" cried Chopper. Usopp sat down as if he was meditating.
"I am in a serene landscape. This was only a dream and when I open my eyes, everything will be as it was." Usopp mused. When he opened his eyes he saw a skeliton in front of him. "AHHHH! I see dead people." Usopp cried, fleeing away. Zoro and Ysmir sighed.
"Turn the rudder!" yelled Nami, trying to naviagte the ship away from where the gallion landed int the sea.
"Are you crazy, it'll never work in these waves." Zoro snapped. Sanji, Zoro, Luffy, and Ysmir were trying to moved the ship away, but the enormous ship was pulling them with it. Ysmir ran to the edge of the Merry and tock a deep breath. He had to do something else.
"HET NOK KOPRaaN DO, IGLIF iiZ-SOS WO GRIND OK OBLaaN, NI KO MOROKei VUKeIN NUZ ahST, MUNAX HaaLVUT DO LiiV KRASaaR!" he shouted. The water bent under her will, turning into solid ice, and the ship stopped rocking. Ysmir looked to Nami, they had a few seconds and she seemed to get the message. She immeditaly started yelling orders that only tock a few instants before everyone was moving. Twenty seconds assed and the water melted, but the ship was moving toward safty, and they were no longer in danger.
"What was that?!" Nami whinned.
"My Ice Form. The words were Here lies the body of, Iglif Ice-Blood who met his end, not in glorious combat, but at the cruel touch of the withering sickness." Ysmir explained, thinking that Nami demanded to know what he had done. Nami waved him down.
"No, THAT!" she said, pointing at the large ship as it dissapeared below the waves. Ther crew looked just as confused as her about this strange occurance. Robin was kneeling by something on the ship.
"What are you looking at Robin?" Chopper asked as he walked over, but then screamed and ran away. The rest of the crew came over to see Robin was handiling the fragments of the skull on the body that Usopp broke when he freaked out. Nami and Usopp joined Chopper in hiding behind the mast as Zoro, Sanji, Luffy, and Ysmir crowed around the woman to see what she was doing.
"That's dicusting Robin!" Nami hissed.
"Any woman who can poke around with dead things is interesting in my book." Sanji deended as Robin started putting the skull back together.
"So is that really going to tell you anything?" Zoro asked. Robin shrugged.
"Who knows." she said. Ysmir was fascinated by this woman. She seemed so interested in what she could learn and was so absorbed in her work. It didn't take her long to have the skull back together again.
"It's almost perfect!" Sanji swooned.
"Except for the holes at the top, those came from an external source." Robin said.
"So there was a mutiny or something?" Sanji asked. Robin laughed.
"Not quite but good guess. These were from a medical practice called Craterization. Right doctor?" Robin asked, looking over at Chopper. The tiny reindeer nodded.
"Yeah, it was an anchient practice of cutting a hole in the skull to releive a forign mass, like a tumer." Chopper said. Ysmir found himself amazed at the tiny reindeer's knowledge.
"Knowing how old of a practice this is, i'd say this man has been dead for two hundred years. I can also say that he was in his early thirty's when he died. His teeth are in surprisingly good shape as well. It's because he rubbed tar on them, a practice from the south blue, and judging from the region, I'd assume he was a member of an exploritory party." said Robin. She went to her books and pulled out one, flipping it open to a page with a ship that looked exactly like the ship that fell on them. In the process, Ysmir noticed that Luffy and Usopp dissapeared. He looked over to see them on what was left of the sinking ship. "Here it is. The St. Briss. The Briss kingdome launched the ship as a scout ship a little over two hundred years ago, and then the ship dissapeared." Robin said.
"Wow Robin, your amazing." Sanji said.
"Amazing what you can learn from looking at old bones." Nami said.
"Amazing." Ysmir agreed. Robin looked surprised at him, but then smiled. Nami then seemed to notice that Luffy and Usopp where missing.
"Where are they now..." then she notcied that the ship had compleatly sunk and Luffy and Usopp were in the water. "STOP MESSING AROUND!" she screamed. Zoro dived in to retreive their captain, and pull him from the sea. Luffy jumped up with a grin.
"Look what we found." he held up an old map that held a strange island surrounded by clouds, and Ysmir could read the words 'Skypeia' across the top. "It's a sky island!" Luffy said excitedly. Ysmir gave the captain a strange look. He had heard of an island in the sky, and the idea of it was just rediculus. "This is proof there's a sky island!" Luffy said excitedly. Nami looked at the map uneasily.
"Luffy there's not sky island. The log pose is broken is all." Nami said. Robin shock her head.
"Not so miss navigator. The logpose only registers a strong magnetic pull from the next island. If it's pointing to the sky, then the logical explination is that there is an island in the sky." Robin said. Ysmir, Zoro, and Sanji gave her an odd look. Robin seemed mature, responsible, and intellegent. Yet here she was talking about a sky island.
"Yea! Let's go to sky island." yelled Luffy as him, Chopper, and Usopp danced in excitement. "Set sail for Sky Island!" Luffy yelled, but suddenly the fact that they couldn't sail up hit them.
"Did it just occure to you. You know, the fact that we can't fly and all?!" Sanji asked with a sigh. They were idiots. Ysmir couldn't help but chuckle at their horrified expressions.
"Well then, we'll need more information. If you all got this map from the ship, then we'll have to search the ship some more." Nami said.
"But how, it's under the water." said Ysmir, now curious. Nami grinned.
"If it's sunk then we'll salvage it!" she yelled in excitement. Luffy and Usopp started cheering.
"Salvage?" Chopper asked Robin. Robin smiled.
"Yes, but we don't have the capability for that. Looks like we'll have to come up with a more refined plan." said Robin softly. Ysmir turned to see Zoro and Sanji having nervious looks, it was clear this wouldn't end in his favor or theres.
Sorry guys, I got slammed with stuff at home. Any way here's the next chapter. Thanks Silverscale, drake202, RefleR, ToxicTrix, and Endless Sorcerer of Unity for all your support and as well as everyone reading these! I hope you like it! I decided to skip the fillers and jump straight into Skypeia. I hope you don't mind!