Coral: Due to the long wait, I decided to make this chapter extra long for you all. Do enjoy what happens here~

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or Kingdom Hearts. I do not own Guthrie and, soon to join, Allen. Well, actually I kind of do own him.


*OPENING*

Let's fly to the sky
(The sun rises as Merry sails across the ocean)

There's not a single cloud in the sky
(All the current Straw Hats watched the sun rises, Luffy on the figurehead)

Let's fly to the sky. (It's time to fly around) Catch the perfect breeze for you
(The camera faces the sky as the title appears on the screen)
Paint the sky with (Let's go to the wonder world) imagination that no one's ever seen
(Camera faces back to the Going Merry as everyone went on with their peaceful business)

OH! OH! Even if it's too dazzling (Come on)
(Xion looked up and saw Marines ahead of them and warned everyone)
OH! OH! under the sun

(They all prepared themselves for battle. Marines fired cannon balls at them)
OH! OH! If it's you, you can make it! Throw away your pride and FLY!
(Luffy, Zoro and Sanji sent the cannons back at them. Usopp fired a cannon of their own with Xion, in her Wisdom Form, unleashed Triple Firaga at them, followed by a Thundaga, clearing their path)

Everyday is plain!
Real talent makes the world go round

(Going Merry sailed through the smoke. Everyone looked content as they enjoyed the sea breeze)
Deceit won't work anymore.
(Scene changed to Jaya in Mock Town, as camera faced each of the Blackbeard Pirates.)
Mayday, the red light is stopping you too
(Scene changed to Cricket's home, showing Cricket with Masira and Shojo side by side.)

Lend me an ear! And I'm gonna stick on my RAP! Wussup!
(Guthrie fights against some pirates and Heartless. One tried to sneak up on him and Chirithy knocked it away.)

"From tomorrow on I'll get serious!"- seriously cut it out with excuses like that
(Allen danced as he dodged the attacks of the pirates and attacked them at the same time)

Increase your money with your dream! Time is money like NASDAQ!
(The Straw Hats looked at Cricket's gold and searched for the South Bird)
When will you do it boy? It's now or never man! This is the moment, right?
(The crew then arrived at the Knock Up Stream and went to the skies.)

Everybody put ya hands in the air and clap ya hands like this like that
Clap ya hands everybody! Everybody just clap ya hands!
(Scenes quickly changed to different scenes. Xion and Guthrie crossed blades, Luffy's one-hit KO on Bellamy, the group trying to catch the South Bird, then finally their first encounter with the Shandia Warriors)

Let's fly to the sky (It's time to fly around) Catch the perfect breeze for you
(The Straw Hat Pirates arrived on Skypiea and were approached by the White Berets and fought them)
Paint the sky with (Let's go to the wonder world) imagination that no one's ever seen
(Scene changed to the group in the Upper Yard fighting against Heartless, Shandians and Priests)

OH! OH! Even if it's too dazzling (Come on)
(Scene changed to Xion fighting against a blonde Organization XIII member with knives and lightning magic)
OH! OH! under the sun
(Changed to Guthrie and Allen teaming up against the Nobodies)

OH! OH! If it's you, you can make it! Throw away your pride and FLY!
(Changed to Luffy battling Enel. In a flash of light, opening ends with all of Straw Hats on Merry, facing the camera)


Last time:

"Is there something we should know?" Guthrie asked, noticing their worried looks.

"Here in Skypiea, there is a place where you must never, ever set foot on no matter the circumstances," Conis explained. "That place is adjacent to this island and could easily be reached with the Waver."

"What do you mean 'never, ever set foot on'?" Xion asked.

"It is sacred ground. We call that place... The Land Where God Resides, Upper Yard."


"A God lives there?!" Luffy asked. "In the place where you must never, ever set foot?!"

Xion didn't know why, but she was having a bad feeling all of a sudden. 'Why do I have a horrible feeling?'

"By 'God', do you mean the God? God lives on Sky Island?" Chopper asked.

"Yes. Because Skypiea is God's land, it is ruled by the almighty God Enel," Conis explained. "God Enel knows everything that goes on in this world."

"Everything?!" Usopp asked.

Conis nodded in reply. "He watches over us, always."

"Always?!"

"Even now?!" Luffy asked.

"Of course," the Skypiean nodded.

"Eh?! He's watching over us at this very moment?!" Chopper asked.

"Hmph. God, huh," Zoro simply spoke, calmly drinking his water.

"You don't believe in God?" Guthrie asked.

"Dunno. Don't care whether God exists or not. It's never mattered to me one bit. Well, not that I have anything against anyone who wants to believe. What about you?"

"Well, I believe there's only one God."

"That's quite vague," Chirithy stated.

"Still though, to think there's a God living in the Upper Yard," Xion said.

"Conis-chan, have you ever seen him?" Sanji asked.

"No! I've never seen him!" she answered. "We cannot set foot on Upper Yard! Ever. The sacred ground, Upper Yard, is forbidden."

"Is that right?" Luffy asked. Xion looked and saw an excited look on his face. "A place we must never, ever set foot, huh?"

'Oh no!' Xion thought.

Usopp turned and also noticed the look on his captain's face, causing him to pale. "Oi, Luffy! What the hell are you thinking right now?! Listen to what she's saying! 'Must never set foot on' means you ABSOLUTELY must not go there, Luffy!"

"Idiot! That's going to make him want to go even more!" the Vice-Captain of the crew scolded.

"Is that right~? A place we must never, ever set foot, huh?" Luffy said again.

Guthrie and Chirithy paled and they turned to Zoro and said, "Adventurous type?"

"That would be an understatement," the swordsman answered.

'So he definitely wants to go,' they thought.

"But, even if you're not allowed to go there, God will still forgive you if you do, right? He's nice, right?" Luffy then asked.

"But... breaking a law the God has created is sacrilege," Conis said.

"Is that so? Well, whatever." Luffy continued to enjoy the meal Sanji and Pagaya prepared.

'He's too reckless!' Chirithy thought in disbelief.

'Had he thought about the possibility that the God might kill us?' Guthrie thought, also in disbelief.

Xion noticed the looks they had and shook her head. 'We're going to die here, aren't we?'

"So, what are the consequences of entering this forbidden Upper Yard?" Robin asked.

"You will not return alive, we believe," Pagaya answered.

"W-Won't return alive?!" Usopp repeated with a gasp.

Sanji was too speechless at those words, now really worried about a certain missing member of their crew.

"You're worried about Nami-san, aren't you?" Pagaya guessed. "It's best if she does not get too close to the Upper Yard."

Incredibly worried, Sanji turned to the open white sea, or open clouds, and cried out Nami's name.

"Let's go! We'll go find Nami!" Luffy suggested with a grin.

"Is Nami really a part of your plan?!" Usopp demanded, shaking the rubber human.

"You just want to enter that forbidden place, don't you?!" Chirithy questioned.

"I'm starting to wonder if my life is worth joining this crew," Guthrie stated.

"Trust me, I think the same thing everyday," Xion said.


Later, the group was back on the Going Merry, getting ready to set sail.

"Yosh! Let's set sail! To the place we must never, ever set foot on!" Luffy ordered/cheered.

Pagaya, who was still on shore, was measuring the wind blowing and informed, "Ah, I'm sorry! There's a headwind right now! With this wind, it would take a considerable amount of time to reach Upper Yard! I'm sorry!" Everyone gasped in shock at the information. "It wouldn't take as long if your ship were powered by Dial energy. I'm sorry."

"Just how long is considerable?" Sanji asked.

"I don't know. Until the wind comes around..."

"Ossan. Isn't there any other way we can get there? If we don't hurry, Nami will come back," Luffy questioned.

'Please hurry up and return,' the Keyblade wielders of the crew and Chirithy mentally prayed, as they closed their eyes and crossed their fingers. As they prayed, Usopp scolded Luffy for his true intentions.

The next thing they knew, Luffy was off the ship with the broken waver they found in his hands, eagerly wanting to go to Upper Yard. The next thing they knew, he tried to ride it. Like how he did with Pagaya's, actually worse than that, the moment he stepped on the waver in the white water, he and the vessel itself fell.

"That idiot!" Zoro exclaimed.

"See what I mean?! Didn't you hear me?!" Usopp demanded, as Luffy was sinking faster.

"What do we do? He's sinking again," Chopper asked.

"Leave him," all the other male pirates answered.

Chirithy looked to the side and noticed someone missing. "Huh? Where's Xion?"

That question had most of the pirates who had answered Chopper's question to gasp with a jaw drop.

"Why does she have to have that bad habit of her's?!" Usopp demanded, already guessing where she went.

"It's too late anyway," Zoro mumbled.


Minutes later, a soaking Xion came back with a bloated Luffy. "You are such a stupid pain in the ass," she stated, hitting his stomach hard enough to get the water out of him.

"So this is your old waver," Pagaya inspected. "It really is worn out, isn't it?"

"We found it in the sea below your's," Usopp explained.

"If you wouldn't mind, may I take a look at it? If it can be fixed, I shall fix it."

"You can fix it, Ossan?!" Luffy asked.

"Oh no," Guthrie muttered.

"I am a Dial-ship engineer," Pagaya said.

"Really?! Then hurry up and-!"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence with that expression and tone!" Xion scolded, stomping the remaining water out of him. "Though I do agree that that thing needs to be fixed if possible."


As the group now wait for Pagaya to fix the waver, or for the wind to blow in the direction they want to go to, they all relaxed at Angel Beach.

"You think Nami's going to come back soon?" Chirithy asked, as he, Guthrie and Xion decided to play a simple card game while they wait.

"Who knows. But she's one of the smart ones among us. She should come back soon," Xion said. "And tell me again why I'm playing Poker with you two."

"Well, as much as I'd like to help you improve your swordsmanship, I'd also not want that little panic attack to happen," Guthrie explained, as he discarded three cards and drew three. "This place is peaceful after all. Might as well enjoy it while you can. It'll help calm your mind. That, and you could consider this as a lesson and a test. Of luck and strategy."

Xion nodded at his reason, as she discarded two cards and drew two different cards. Chirithy followed up with discarding and drawing the same amount as her.

"Three of a kind," the Dream Eater said, putting down his hand.

"Two pairs," the male Keyblade wielder followed.

"Flush," the female wielder followed after him.

"Suspicious-looking ship! Stop right there!" they heard a shout. They turned and saw a group of people marching down to the beach. Once they reach the bottom, for some reason, the group crawled the rest of the way to them.

"Why are they crawling the rest of the way to us?" Chirithy asked.

"Don't know. We should probably get down there," Guthrie suggested. The other two nodded at the suggestion and joined Luffy, Sanji, Chopper, and Usopp on shore.

When the group of soldiers were close enough, the one at the front shouted for them to halt. They then got back up on their feet and greeted Conis and Pagaya with a 'Heso', both who greeted them back.

"What the hell are you guys saying?!" Luffy asked.

"Luffy, show some respect," Xion scolded, hitting the captain of her's on the head.

"Who're they?" Zoro asked, awakened from his nap.

"You are the nine illegal entrants from the Blue Sea, correct?!" the suppose-leader of the group of soldiers asked. Everyone was a bit confused at the question. "We are here to bestow Heaven's Judgement upon you!"

Conis and Pagaya were really shocked to hear that.

"Illegal entrants? What's that mean?" Luffy asked.

"I-Is that true?" Pagaya asked instead of answering his question.

"There's no use denying it," the leader of the soldiers said. "The Heaven's Gate lookout, Amazon, has sent us these photos, taken with her Vision Dial." He took out a stack of photos, each containing a picture of each of the Straw Hats.

"No! That's not possible! There must be a mistake, Captain McKinley! They are not bad people!" Pagaya tried to reason.

Guthrie placed a hand on his shoulder. "It's fine, Pagaya-san."

"What are you talking about? Besides, what does he mean illegal entrants?" Sanji asked.

"Remember back at the gate? When we were told to pay the extol?" Xion pointed out.

"Huh?! But that old lady said we can pass without paying!" Usopp recalled.

"No excuses. Just accept your guilt," McKinley said. "However, there is no need to worry. Illegal entry is a minor, Class-11 crime punishable by Heaven's Judgement. Once you've received your punishment, you will be returned to the status of peaceful tourists."

"Well why didn't you say so earlier?" Sanji questioned. "I still don't like this but what's the punishment?"

"It's a simple matter. Pay ten times the immigration fee. If you pay the fee immediately, your crime will be written straight off. Ten billion extol per person, so that's ninety billion extol in total."

"But you see, sir, that's kind of the problem," Xion spoke up.

"What? You don't have the extol?"

"That's not it. You see this is the first time we came to a sky island, and we didn't know the currency was different. We tried asking at the gate about extol, but your lookout told us we can just pass through without paying. She didn't tell us what the price was in belli."

"Belli? That's the Blue Sea currency, isn't it? I believe ten thousand extol is one belli."

Usopp tried to calculate the amount in his head.

"If it's ninety billion extol, then it's nine million in belli," Robin calculated for him.

"That's too much! I could buy tons of rice with that!" Sanji complained. "Why do we have to pay such a ridiculous amount after risking our lives to get here?! It's unac-!"

Guthrie placed a hand in front of the chef. "Calm down," he told him.

"How can I when they are demanding for something unreasonable?!"

"What are you saying? You should've just paid the original nine hundred thousand belli at the gate," McKinley simply said.

"That's still-!"

"Sanji! Leave this to me!" The chef backed down from what would've been a fight. Turning to McKinley, Guthrie then said, "Look, sir. There's something you don't seem to understand. We were never told of the currency up here in the first place. When we first arrived at the gate, your lookout failed to inform us about the extol to belli currency. Not only that, she also gave us misleading information, stating that we can still come up here without paying the fee."

"I believe I had said you are in no position in making excuses," the soldier said.

"You misunderstand me. This isn't me making excuses, but rather explaining to you why we didn't pay the fee." The male Keyblade wielder saw he was getting nowhere with the guy. "Think of it this way. You are in a new land, one that has a currency different from what you're used to. You hear there's a fee at a really high price for being there and wanted to know how much it is in the currency you're used to. But instead of getting a straight answer, you were told to not worry about it. Then later on, you find yourself on a wanted poster just because you didn't pay the fee, simply due to the fact that you don't know how much the fee was in your currency." That explanation was starting to get to McKinley that time.

"When you put it that way, I suppose you're being reasonable. And your friend there said this is your first time in the White-White Sea, right?" he asked.

"Yes, that's right," Xion answered.

"Then I suppose we can just let you off with a written warning. However, you still must pay the nine hundred thousand belli."

"You're still being unreasonable!" Sanji shouted. This earned him a punch to the face by Xion.

"Shut up! We're not looking for further conflict with these guys!" she scolded.

"Was that punch necessary?!" Chirithy asked.

"Yes, Xion-swan~" the chef swooned in a dazed tone.

This left the Dream Eater and his master in silence.

"I don't think we need to worry about that," the latter said.

"I guess so," the former agreed.

"In any case, I'll go and see if I have that amount in my safe," Xion said, heading back to the ship. "And while I'm gone, Guthrie, please make sure he doesn't do anything stupid." She pointed at Luffy when she said that.

"Why me?!" the captain demanded.

"Because you're the one who always gets us into trouble!" she reasoned, whacking him on the head, burying it in the cloud beneath him. Turning back to Guthrie while rubbing her temple, she once again requested, "Please just make sure they don't get into any trouble. I've a really bad feeling about what will happen if they do."

"Sure... Got it," he nodded. Now having her worries at ease, Xion went back to the Merry to check her safe.


*FIVE MINUTES LATER*

After remembering when she hid her safe, to prevent Nami from finding it, and remembering the code she had for it, in case if Nami found it and tries to break it open somehow, Xion finally opened the safe and got the money out. Imagine her surprise when the first thing she saw was, other than Nami returning, McKinley was on the beach, hurt and unconscious.

"What the hell happened while I was gone?!" she shouted.

"Do you realize what you've done to our captain?!" one of the soldiers questioned her friends.

Sanji seemed to have gotten a bit pissed off from where Xion was seeing. Nami calmed him down, preventing him from saying anything that may anger them even further. "Don't be so upset. That was by chance," she reasoned with the soldiers. "How should I put it... I unintentionally... It was like an accident... Oh yes! It was an accident! An accident! Because it's hard to actually control and ride a waver, right? On top of that, today was my first time riding one. So I made a little mistake while turning the handles. I'm so clumsy, aren't I? I guess beginners shouldn't push too hard, after all, right?"

'Oh... So for once it wasn't Luffy who was causing trouble,' Xion thought.

Just when she thought that, Luffy went and blurted out that Nami could ride it fairly well and was having the time of her life.

"Oh, the time of her life," Guthrie spoke. He wrapped his arm around Luffy's neck, almost strangling him. "You and your stupid eyes, Luffy! Never knowing the difference between happy and scared expressions. Nami, although had managed to stay on the waver for so long, was NOT having fun and she was having trouble with the waver."

At this point, Xion was kneeling down by McKinley's side. "Shouldn't you guys be treating your captain?" she asked.

"Ah! That's right!" one of them agreed.

Sighing, Xion used her Cure Magic on the unconscious man. "I've healed him somewhat, so at least he won't wake up with a concussion, but you should still give him some treatment. Oh. And here's our fee."

"Thank you very much! Heso!" the soldiers bowed and saluted, taking the fee Xion had in her hands and McKinley to Pagaya's house, in which the latter had offered. As they left, they turned to the rest of the Straw Hats and told them all to remain in their spot. As they left, Conis advised them to leave Skypeia. She then followed after her father and the White Berets.

As soon as they were out of sight, Nami said, "We should do as she said. I saw it with my own eyes. An island with these scary guys on it!"

Usopp and Chopper flinched at those words.

"So you did go to what they called the forbidden sacred ground," Zoro said.

"And here we were, hoping you didn't go to the place no one was to set foot on," Guthrie sighed.

Luffy's face was sparkling as he heard the words 'forbidden' and 'scary'. The male scaredy cats of the group tried to get him to forget what was just heard.

"Gods... Guerillas... That place is no good for sure!" Nami stated. "In any case, we're leaving! Leaving!"

"Before that though..." Xion spoke, approaching the happy-go-lucky pirate. The next thing anyone knew, she hit him hard on the head. "What the hell, Luffy?! I was gone for five minutes! FIVE minutes! And something tells me, from those guys' reactions, that within those five minutes you did and said something stupid before Nami came back! I've a feeling one of those stupid things is telling them you'll kick their asses for saying things you don't want to hear!"

"That's kind of what happened," Chirithy confirmed.

After beating up the foolish pirate, Xion wiped away some sweat from her head. "In any case, like Nami said, we have to get out of here. We stay any longer, Payaga and Conis will be in just as much trouble as we already are."

"Xion's right," Guthrie agreed. "Those White Berets will think they're our accomplices. At the very least, it will lessen whatever punishment they will give those two if we leave without their help."

"Okay! That settles it then! Let's go!" Usopp declared.

Few minutes later, a few members were already on board, while the rest were still on Angel Beach... waiting for Luffy to get moving.

"What are you doing, Luffy?!" Nami demanded.

"Why are we running away?" the captain asked.

"Because we'll be in big trouble!"

"We're always in big trouble."

"Like I said, it's not just us; those two may get arrested too!"

"But they did nothing wrong. The one who arrests them is wrong," Luffy stubbornly said, though he did have a point.

"Luffy isn't going to move from that spot, is he?" Guthrie asked.

"I should've dragged him on board when I had the chance," Xion muttered.

"How did you end up on this ship again?" Chirithy dared ask.

"That's what I'd like to know."

"Please run!" came Conis' voice.

The group turned to the source and saw her and her father with the White Berets, along with the recovered McKinley.

"You shouldn't, Miss," the Captain said. "If you say something that defends criminals, you too are also going to pay. As you know, these people are felons who should be sentenced to be banished to the clouds as punishment for their fifth degree crime, caused by their abusive language toward us along with their obstruction of our official duties."

Hearing those words made Xion wonder, again, 'What the hell did they do while I was gone? And for five minutes no less.'

"Like I said, it was an accident!" Nami reasoned again. She grabbed Luffy's arm and made an attempt to rush back to the ship, when the White Berets aimed their arrows.

"FIRE! Milky Arrows!" McKinley ordered. The other soldiers fired at will. The arrows they fired left paths of clouds, all that Luffy dodged. To his surprise, they then rode on the cloudy paths with what seemed like skates.

Seeing them ride on the clouds made Xion widened her eyes in shock. 'That's...' Before she knew it, though quite faint, a memory triggered in her head.

In the faint memory, she saw herself walking in the middle of a forest or a jungle. By her side, was a person. Due to how faint the memory was, she couldn't make out the figure, but she did see herself... smiling at whoever was with her.

"A memory?" she silently muttered. Looking back at the fight, she saw that the Monster Trio had defeated the White Berets.

"You fools. You can't go back now," they all heard. "You should've just behaved and done what I told you to. We, the White Berets, are the gentlest upholders of the law in God's Land. However, they are not as nice as we are!"

"'They'?" Chirithy asked, a bit frightened.

"You are now class-two criminals! No matter if you cry or scream, you'll be judged by the priests of Upper Yard! Heso!"

Yeah... They were in deep shit now.


After that little scene with the White Berets, the Straw Hat Pirates were back on Angel Beach again, going over what had just occurred.

"To think we would get in this much trouble," Guthrie spoke.

"Not even a day passed wince we arrived," Chirithy added.

"But that old lady said so, didn't she?!" Nami questioned. "'You can still pass,' she said. Now we're here and they're calling it illegal entry?! That's a fraud! I'll sue them for this!"

"I've a feeling that old lady doesn't know how to do her job that well. And besides, we wouldn't be in this situation if we had time to know about how the currency goes here," Xion pointed out.

"Yeah. You people are all so impatient," Usopp said.

Hearing that made his vice captain and counselor mad. "YOU WERE ONE OF THE TWO WHO TOLD HER WE WERE STILL GOING!"

"Nevertheless, this is still a terrible predicament," Pagaya spoke. "As you are now Class-2 criminals, we cannot be of help."

"Why are you talking from so far away?" Nami asked, for he and Conis are at a distance where they're voices can only be heard if they shout.

"Well, it doesn't really matter. We're used to being chased," Luffy said with a goofy smile on his face. "More importantly, why did you come back? We were finally about to go to the place we're never to enter for a big ad- I mean, to find you."

Try as he might, he was too easy to read. "You're so easy to figure out..." Nami said. As she hit him repeatedly, she then said, "What big adventure?! I told you, didn't I?! You can say that because you haven't seen how strong those people from that island are! It's true that we don't know if this guy is God or what, but his supernatural powers are the real thing! I will never go back to that island! You hear?!"

"She really needs to grow some kind of back bone," Guthrie said.

"She's not the only one," Xion muttered in agreement, referring to one or two other individuals in their crew.

"Okay. We'll go and you stay here," Luffy said, as if it was the answer to everything.

"No! They're gonna come after me! We have to leave now!" the navigator of the group corrected.

"Leave here?! Are you stupid?! What's more important to you, adventure or life?!"

"LIFE! Then money!" She smacked his head to the ground, it got stuck in the clouds. After that, Sanji tried to swoon her, only to get hit and land a couple of feet away.

"Now that you mentioned it, how do we get back to the Blue Sea?" Chirithy asked.

Everyone went silent at that question, realizing they had no knowledge of how to return to their normal sea.

"Is there a way we can go back to the Blue Sea?" Usopp asked Conis and Pagaya.

"There is a way. Though at this point, I can't really guarantee it to be safe," the former of the two answered. "You could go to Cloud End, the farthest edge of the clouds. Cloud End is in the far east. To get there, you need to go down to the White Sea first."

"Good! Then we can go back down to our sea from there, right?" Usopp happily asked.

"No way. I'm not going back," Luffy stubbornly declined.

"Hey, do you want to stay here and get sentenced to death?!"

"In any case, if we stay here, it'll cause more trouble for Conis and Pagaya," Nami added on.

"Well, even if we do run away, we might not be able to get away from them. Especially since we have to stick around a bit longer for the Log Pose to reset," Guthrie pointed out.

Nami clicked her tongue at the reminder. "You're right. But at the very least, we should be away from this part of Skypeia." With that said, everyone returned to the ship.

Just as they were about to return, Luffy asked Pagaya if they can take the rest of the meal he and Sanji had prepared earlier. Being the kind man he was, the guy said yes. Sanji took the chance to 'say his final goodbyes' to Conis and Usopp wanted some materials for Merry's repair.

"You guys! Get the ship ready for adventure!" Luffy 'ordered'. Xion sweatdropped at those words.

"Those guys are really scary!" Nami told the rest of the crew.

"Who cares? I don't," Zoro said.

"Yeah, princess. Get a grip," Guthrie told her.

"Chopper~ You're on my side, right?" the navigator asked the man-reindeer, who flinched at her tone.

"Please don't threaten him," the female Keyblade wielder said. "In any case, I should go with the other three. Just to make sure they don't get us in any more trouble than we already are."

Nami nodded in agreement to the idea. "Please do so, Xion."

"Guthrie! Go with her!" Chirithy told his partner.

"Why? She can handle herself against those White Berets. Besides, I doubt God will risk harming his people," he said, climbing up the rope ladder Robin brought down.

After half the crew got on, they were about to prepare the ship to sail, when Conis came.

"So there's a special cloud current that can take us down to the White Sea?" Nami asked.

"Yes. By getting on that cloud, you can cross the vast ocean and go to the White Sea. And you can also get to Cloud End without getting lost," the Skypeian resident nodded. "As long as you get on that current, no one can come after you."

"If we don't tell Luffy and get Going Merry on that current..." Nami's eyes started to sparkle at the one chance of leaving unnoticed, by Luffy that is.

"By the time he notices, it'll be too late, huh?" Chopper said.

"But that doesn't mean he'll give up on it," Robin pointed out.

"Considering there are other ways we can come back up here that is," Guthrie agreed with the archeologist.

Nami glared at the latter two for pointing that out.

"I can guide you to the entrance of the current on a waver," Conis offered.

"So our job is to prevent Luffy from noticing then," Chirithy said.

"We can take care of it," Nami said with confidence.

"Then please weigh anchor and wait for me." With that, Conis took her leave. As she left, Robin and Guthrie couldn't help but feel a bit suspicious to the girl.


*WITH LUFFY AND THE OTHERS*

Xion was helping the guys pack up their lunch at Pagaya's place. As they packed, Luffy was stealing a bunch of bites.

"Luffy! Stop stealing out lunch!" Usopp scolded.

"But there's a lot! So don't hold back!" Luffy said.

"You're the one who should hold back!" Sanji scolded.

"He's right. You're lucky I have over enough money to pay for that fee," Xion said. "If I recall, Nami had a little over fifty thousand belli on her."

"How can we be so low?! As your captain, I order you to not waste-!"

"You're the reason why we're so low on money!" Xion, Sanji and Usopp shouted at his face, not giving him time to finish his sentence.

"I also brought some tea, if you like," Pagaya offered.

Luffy didn't hold back and got himself a cup.

Xion sighed as she went to the balcony, looking out for the priests McKinley had spoke of. 'I can't shake off this bad feeling I'm getting,' she thought.

'Don't leave yet...' she then heard.

Her eyes widened at the voice. 'That sounds like-!'

'Please... Don't leave yet...'

'We want to go back... Back to the Blue Sea!'

The female Keyblade wielder groaned at her luck. 'Why of all places...? Now what? I can't leave without the Dream Eaters. But at the same time, we have to watch out for the priests.' Just then, she saw a pair of red lights in the clouds, near Going Merry. 'Huh? What was that?'

The next thing she knew, the ship was rocking, as though it was under attack.

"Hey! Something's wrong with the ship!" Usopp informed, also noticing something wrong with the Going Merry.

"What?!" Sanji gasped.

"He's right! Merry is rocking!" Xion said.

"A party? No fair, having a party without us!" Luffy whined.

"Can you stop thinking like a child already?!"

Sanji was looking through a telescope. "Ah! Nami-san! Why... Why is she wearing a t-shirt?!"

Usopp hit him for missing the huge point. "Just where the heck is your mind at?!"

"Hey! The ship started moving!" Luffy said, as they watched Merry sailing away, with a strange shadow below it. "What are they doing?! Where are they going?!"

Xion noticed something else that was weird about Merry. "Wait a second. Is Merry going backwards?!"

The boys noticed that it was true; Going Merry was moving backwards.

"That's awesome! She's sailing backwards!" Luffy exclaimed.

"No wait! They didn't set sail at all! Look underneath the ship!" Usopp corrected, noticing the sails were furled and the shadow in the cloud below Merry.


*BACK ON MERRY*

Those who were on the merry were all confused as to how the ship was moving. Some assumed they were already on the current.

"Hey wait! Look in the cloud!" Chirithy shouted.

The group looked down and saw a huge lobster emerged, its claws tightly gripping Merry's fake and broken wings.

"It's trying to take us somewhere!" Zoro stated. "Everyone get off the ship! There's still time!"

"But what about the ship?!" Chopper asked.

"I'll stay behind!"

"Wait a second! What are you going to do?!" Nami demanded.

"I'll manage something!" Zoro jumped off the ship, Wado in his mouth. He then started to cut the lobster, or at least attempt to. Seconds later, cracks started to form.

Guthrie looked back to shore and saw something. "Zoro stop! It's not going to work!" he shouted.

"Huh?! What are you saying?!" the swordsman demanded.

"Look over there!" Zoro looked where he was pointing and what seemed like sea serpents chasing after them. "You kill this thing, those serpents will eat us."

"Even if we could defeat them, another patch will probably arrive soon," Robin added.

"So wait! You mean that Heaven's Judgement thing already started?!" Chirithy asked.

"So instead of sending people after us, they're bringing us in," Zoro said in understanding. "What an impudent guy..."

Nami sighed, since it meant she was retuning to that dangerous island. "LUFFY! USOPP! SANJI-KUN! XION!"


*BACK AT PAGAYA'S PLACE*

Everyone was shocked at what had just occurred.

"Why..." Sanji spoke. "Why a t-shirt?"

"You're still talking about that?!" Usopp questioned, hitting the hopeless blonde.

"Now what do we do, Luffy?" Xion dared to ask.

"... Where'd they go?" the even more hopeless captain asked back.

Just when Xion was about to scold him for asking such a stupid question, the Blue Sea dwellers all realized they didn't know exactly where their friends were taken.

"The Super-Express Lobster is a messenger for God," Pagaya informed. "What it transports is always an offering to God. So, it's headed to northeast Upper Yard, to the sacrificial altar."

"Sacrifice?! Nami-san, Robin-chan and the rest will be sacrificed?!" Sanji asked. Usopp smacked him for putting the rest of the guys as 'the rest'.

"That's not entirely true. I've heard, although it's called sacrifice, in Heaven's Judgement, there are two kinds of punishment that criminals receive. Sacrifice and an ordeal. They're currently hostages, so to speak, in God's hands."

Xion raised a brow at the last sentence. "Hostages? So then..."

Pagaya nodded, catching on to her assumption. "The ones who are actually being judge... are the four of you."