A/N: I Don't Own One Piece
"We're finally here" Luffy thought in joy as the Going Merry landed on the cloud, "the White Sea".
"Is everyone alright" Zoro asked as he listened to some of the Straw Hats coughing and catching their breath.
"That was amazing" Kaya said when she regained her breath.
"But also, terrifying" Johnny muttered as he continued to hug Yosaku.
"At least we're all alive" Gin stated as he stood back up.
"Yes, it would have been quite determinantal to your heath if you fell of the ship on the way up" Robin said darkly with a completely straight face.
"She's a devil" Gin whispered to himself as he began to take in the sights.
"It's so white" Chopper said as he looked at the clouds beneath the ship.
"We're on top of the clouds" Gin yelled out in shock, "how can we be on top of the clouds, this makes no sense".
"What did you expect to happen" Zoro asked the man, "if we weren't sailing on it, we would have fallen straight back to the sea and died".
"But it shouldn't be possible" Gin replied as he looked around, "the GrandLine continues to amaze me".
"So, this is the sea of the sky" Kaya said in amazement as she looked over the clouds, "but I can't see anything around here".
"That's because we still have to go higher" Nami told the woman, "the Log Pose is still pointing up".
"Then this must be the middle part of the Millennium Cumulonimbus" Robin stated.
"How do we get higher" Johnny asked, "I don't see anything around here to get up higher".
"Hopefully it's not like what we just went through" Yosaku added with a small bit of fear.
"We just have to sail around and hopefully we find something" Nami told them, "we should find something quite quickly".
"Heads up" Luffy interrupted the woman as the crew noticed something moving through the cloud beneath them, "Zoro, you're on it".
Zoro smirked as he noticed a large tentacle surface from beneath the cloud, he quickly drew Wado Ichimonji and jumped from the ship. He swiftly slashed through the tentacle as the Sea King roared in pain, surprising to some of the crew the tentacle burst like it was a balloon. The beast quickly retreated back into the could as a small fish shot away from the tentacle and landed on the deck of the Going Merry.
Sanji walked over to the strange looking fish and picked it up from the desk, he looked it over with a smile as he remembered the taste from last time before Robin took the fish from him. Robin smiled at the small fish as remembered what happened to it last time, she was determined to look over the fish more before her Captain ate it this time. She rolled it over in her hands as she noted the differences in the Sky Fish compared to the ones that they normally found in the Blue Sea. Knowing the crew members who weren't with them last time were looking for answer she looked up at them with a small smile, she really had missed this crew.
"This is a Sky Fish, it's seems like it is the strange fish that Noland described in his diary" Robin told them all as they looked at the fish, "due to the fact there doesn't seem to be a sea floor here, it looks like the various creatures here have evolved in a way that allows them to survive".
"So, it became flat and some of them became balloon like" Kaya replied as she looked at the small fish.
"Yes, they all make themselves lighter due to the buoyance force being much weaker here then in sea water" Robin told her with a smile as she passed Luffy the fish knowing she won't see it ever again
"They must be carnivorous as well" Kaya noted as she remembered to mouth of the fish before realising it was gone, "where did it go".
"I'd say Sanji has turned it into a meal" Robin replied as she noticed her Captain, "and Luffy is likely going to eat it".
"Here, I sautéed it" Sanji told Luffy as the man quickly ate the fish with star like eyes.
"It's delicious" Luffy replied in joy.
"Luffy" Kaya complained as she saw the man finish the fish, "although it looks like you enjoyed it".
"Guys" Usopp called out to the crew, "some guys just destroyed a ship and is coming for us".
"He's wearing a demon mask" Johnny screamed as the man advanced towards them.
"Be ready" Luffy yelled at the crew as he drew back his fist.
The mask figure jumped on the deck of the Going Merry and shot straight at Gin, the Man-Demon attempted to bring his tonfa up towards the man only to be too slow and receive a kick in the face. As the mask man bounced of Gin's face then shot towards Zoro only to have to jump back in surprise as the man swung his sword right through where he would have been standing. The figure took the bazooka off his back and aimed it at the crew before he noticed a hand on it. He looked behind him and notice the Straw Hat wearing pirate staring at him darkly as an overwhelming pressure filled his core.
"I believe that's enough" Luffy told the man as he continued to slowly flood the area with Haoshoku Haki, "especially with that old man watching over us".
"Old man, I believe you're inferring to me" a man asked as the crew looked up and noticed him on a strange bird.
The crew watched as he jumped through the air and landed on the deck of the Going Merry with his spear in his hand. He watched as Luffy released the masked man and jumped backward towards his crew, the two strangers seemed to stare at each other before the masked man leapt from the ship and took off across the clouds.
"So, who are you" Kaya asked as she looked at the strange man in armour.
"Oh, I'm the Sky Knight" the man replied as he looked over the crew in surprise.
The sky knight is an old man of average height with long white hair, moustache, and beard. Fitting to his title of a knight, he wears a metal armour with a dark red shirt, and brown pants, he also has the knight's visor pulled up. He wears a long dark blue cloak that is yellow on the inside and at the back
"Who was the guy" Johnny asked from Gin's side, "and how did he take Gin out so easily".
"It feels like my body wouldn't move how I wanted it" Gin said in frustration as he sat up.
"That would be due to the low amount of oxygen" Luffy stated, "but you'll all get used to it".
"Ah, that makes sense, for you to be saying those words, you must be from the Blue Seas" the Sky Knight stated.
"Blu Seas" Yosaku questioned.
"All who live under the clouds are citizens of the Blue Seas" the man informed them "in other words, did you come you from the Blue Seas".
"We did" Luffy replied as he looked at the man.
"Then your problem can't be helped, this place is 7000 meters above the Blue Seas and is called the White Sea" the Sky Knight told the, "above this place is the White-White Sea at 10,000 meters, the average citizens of the Blue Seas won't be able handle it".
"I'm beginning to get used to it" Gin told the crew as he began to jump up and down.
"That can't be true" the Sky Knight muttered in shock, "but then again some of you don't seem to be affected at all".
"Who was that guy from before" Nami asked as he redirected the old man's attention, "and how could he walk across the clouds".
"Hold on a second, I'm sure you have a lot of questions, but business comes first" the Sky Knight told them, "I'm a freelance mercenary and this is a very dangerous part of the sea, those who don't about aero battles will be attacked by guys like before and quickly fall from this sea, so I'll give you a whistle, with each it will cost fifty million extol then I'll come and save you".
"Extol" Kaya asked, "what is Extol".
"Don't be fools, you know what that is" the old man stated sternly, "I can't lower it anymore if I want to earn a living".
"We really don't know what it is, we've never heard of this Extol thing" Johnny replied to the man as a shocked look appeared on his face.
"That's not possible" the Sky Knight said in disbelief, "didn't you guys come here through the top of High Waist, you must have at least arrived at one or two islands".
"What are you talking about" Yosaku asked in confusion.
"Wait, there are other ways to get here" Johnny asked in confusion, "also you said one or two islands, but isn't there only one island".
"Wait, don't tell me you guys come up that monstrous stream" the Sky Knight yelled in shock, "I didn't think there were still people brave enough for that".
"That's right" Luffy told him with a smile, "there wasn't any other way we could get up".
"Did you lose any crew mates" the Sky Knight asked softly.
"No" Luffy replied, "we all make it".
"Other routes are not like this, if 100 people want to go to the sky island through the other routes, it would be a gamble with no way to predict how many crewmates will live and reach the destination" the sky knight informed them all, "however the knock up-stream is more like everybody gets there or no one does, either 0 or 100, not many dare to make that gamble, especially these days, those who dare, I see them as great sailors who have both courage and real strength".
"Yeah, but that's all because of me" Usopp told the old man before Kaya whacked him over the head.
"One whistle, blow this whistle once and I'll come down from the sky to save you" the sky knight told them as he threw the whistle onto the deck, "using the currency of the sky, each whistle would cost fifty million extol, but your whistle will be free as a gift to you, use the whistle at any time to call me".
"Look at that bird" Johnny stated as he looked at the creature.
The creature is a large pink bird with a red polka dot pattern on his body. He's solid red on the sides of his head, the back of his head, and on his horn-like ears. He has a tab face, with a yellow beak.
"Ah, that's right, I forgot to introduce my partner, this is Pierre" the sky knight told them as the bird began to transform, "even though he's a bird he has the power of the Uma Uma no Mi, which means he can become a winged horse, in other words, a Pegasus".
"That doesn't look right" the crew though as they looked at the winged horse in front of them.
Now in his hybrid bird-horse form, he transformed into a horse with wings that maintain the pink body with red polka dot design, but with white feathers. His face also elongates to that of a horse's.
"I wish you luck heroes" the man screamed as he took off into the sky.
"That kid reminds me of the man who visited all those years ago" the old man thought with a smile, "I wonder how he is these days".
"In the end he didn't really tell us anything" Robin stated.
"So now we're back at the starting point" Usopp complied.
"Then how do we get higher" Kaya asked.
"Let's just get the ship moving" Zoro stated as he ignored the trio.
"Everybody, look over there" Chopper yelled as he looked through the binoculars.
"What's that" Gin asked the doctor, "looks like a waterfall".
"It is a weird cloud right" Chopper asked as Robin nodded at him.
"Ok, it's decided" Luffy announced, "let's go check it out over there".
Later
It didn't take long for Nami to get used to navigating the strange cloud as they made their way over to what looked like a waterfall cloud. They had come to a short roadblock when they couldn't go into a straight line due to a solid and bouncy cloud. That was soon fixed as Luffy and Chopper climbed to the top of the cloud and directed Nami how to get to where they were going. As they arrived at the bottom of the cloud, they noticed some sort of gate called heaven's gate at the bottom of the waterfall.
"There it is" Kaya breathed out in amazement as she held Usopp's hand.
"That waterfall looking cloud is really a waterfall" Johnny said in disbelief.
"Heaven's Gate" Gin stated as he looked at the sign, "wonder if they'll let me up.
"That has to be a bad omen" Johnny yelled as he hugged Yosaku
"Yeah, it's totally unexpected, maybe we're dead already" Zoro stated as he sat down and watched the pair freak out.
"It would explain this strange world" Sanji added further scaring the pair.
"We can't be dead" Chopper yelled innocently.
"Don't let them bother you" Robin told the doctor as she rested her hand on his head, "they're just making fun of the pair.
"This is how we get through" Luffy stated as he stood on the figurehead of the Going Merry.
"There's someone coming out" Gin told everybody
"Are you here for sightseeing, or here to fight" the old lady asked as she took photos of them, "actually it doesn't matter why you're here, if you want to go up, each person must pay one billion extol as the entrance fee, that's the law".
"That's one old angel" Gin muttered.
"How much is that when converted to Beli" Usopp asked before Nami covered his mouth.
"We don't have the money to get up" Nami told the lady, "can we still go up.
"You can" the old woman replied.
"Really" Johnny yelled out.
"Also, if you don't want to go up that's okay" the lady stated, "I'm not a guard, nor am I a solider, I just want to know your intentions".
"Let's go" Luffy told the woman, "send us up".
"Alright then, eleven people, right" the woman asked as she took a photo of them.
"That's right" Luffy replied with a smile as he felt something bump into the ship.
"Somethings grabbed us" Yosaku screamed out in shock.
"That's the White Sea's Special Speedy Shrimp" the lady told them as it took off with the ship.
"We're moving" Kaya yelled out.
"Grab onto something" Luffy ordered as the ship began to climb up the waterfall.
"Heaven's Gate Watcher Amazon reporting" the old lady said into a speaker, "o'mighty god and his priests, to those wanting to go to the god's country Skypiea, to these eleven illegally entering travelling, I have given them sky's judgement".
"We're coming Enel" Luffy thought with a smirk, "I can't wait to see you lose again".
Enel
"Hmm, what's that" a man in the sky thought as he felt a group with large powers enter his range, "this should be interesting, but they will stand no chance when measured against a good".
A/N:
Translations:
Kenbunshoku Haki – Observation Haki
Uma Uma no Mi – Horse Horse Fruit
Haoshoku Haki – Conqueror's Haki