34. The island in the sky

"OH CRAP!" Sanji yelled. Everyone looked up and saw a gigantic ship falling down from the sky.

"I knew that wasn't rain!" he yelled. "Quickly, move the ship away!"

What was falling down on them wasn't rain, unless you count ancient bits of wood as rain. The Strawhats made sure the ship wasn't hit and then stared confused at the sinking ship.

"Ah, that must have fallen from the Sky Island!" Luffy told everyone cheerfully.

"WHAAAT?!"

"I agree with Captain-san!" Robin replied. "Altrough to be precise what is floating up there is a sea."

"A sea?!" Several of the Straw hats questioned. Luffy nodded.

"There is a sky sea over there and an island on it!" he told them.

"This is hard to take in!" Sanji replied.

"But the Log-pose is pointing up, isn't it?" Robin asked. Nami looked at her and nodded.

"To tell the truth, I've never been on a sky island. I don't know much about it." Robin told her then.

"Of course not!" Nami yelled. "It's impossible! Islands in the sky! The Log-pose must bo broken!"

"I wouldn't say that, Navigator-san." Robin replied. "What you should be thinking now is not how to repair that Log-pose, but rather how to get to the sky."

Nami looked at her in bewilderment.

"If the Log-pose points somewhere, you'll find an island there. The Log-pose is the only thing you can rely on completely. If there is a conflict between the Log-pose and your common sense, common sense loses one hundred percent of the time!" she continued.

"But-" Nami began.

"Nami!" Luffy interrupted. She looked at him. "Shanks was on the Sky island up there. It definitely exists. Weren't you listening this morning?"

Everyone looked at him.

"Shanks was up there once." He continued. "With his old captain, Gold Roger. So it definitely exists."

Everyone looked at him in shock.

"So it's true?" Robin asked. "The pirate king was the captain of Red-Haired Shanks?"

Luffy nodded.

"Yes. But Shanks was only a cabin boy at the time." He told them.

In the next few minutes, Robin proceeded to put back together the skeleton that had fallen on the Going Merry (and scared the crap out of the weakling trio), while Usopp and Luffy jumped on the rapidly sinking ship and explored it. When they returned, Luffy jumped on the middle of the ship and opened a large paper.

"Skypea?" Nami read and took the map from his hands. Luffy, Usopp and Chopper proceeded to celebrate, which annoyed her.

"Hey now, it's only a possibility! The world is full of fake maps, you know!" she told them. This ruined Chopper's and Usopp's mood, but Luffy was unaffected.

"HEY! Are you saying Shanks is a liar? Shanks said he was up there, so it must exist!" Luffy told her.

"Maybe he was drunk and he imagined it!" Nami replied. Luffy shook his head.

"A true pirate only drinks after the adventure!" he declared and raised his fist in the air. "ADVENTURE!"

"Yeah, but how are we going to get up there?" Nami asked with a growing twitch.

"We'll figure something out." He replied.

After arguing for a few minutes, the monster trio was put into some kind of weird diving suits made of barrels. They dived.

A few minutes later …

Someone crashed through the door.

"JUST WHO ARE YOU?!" Masira yelled. "Are you trying to muscle in on my turf?"

The three looked at him.

"Oh, a monkey!" Luffy announced. Masira stared at him for a moment and then … blushed.

"Do I really look that monkeyed over?" he asked.

"Yeah, just like a monkey." Luffy replied.

"What kind of conversation is that?" Zoro asked with a sweatdrop.

"By the way, who are you?" Sanji asked.

"Oh, how careless of me!" Masira replied. "But do you really think so? You really have an eye for quality!"

"Hey, we asked who you are." Zoro asked in annoyance. Something crashed, but the four ignored it completely.

"I'm Masira!" the monkey announced. "I'm the salvage king!"

"Really?!" Luffy asked with stars in his eyes. The other two sweat-dropped.

"I'm Luffy and those are Zoro and Sanji!" Luffy announced and pointed at each of them. "We've come here from East Blue!"

"Great to meet you!" Masira replied and laughed. "So, you guys are from East Blue!"

"Tha's right!" Luffy confirmed and laughed. "But man, you really look like a monkey!"

"Oh, you're just saying that!" Masira told him.

"Oh, by the way, Monkey-san!" Luffy asked. Masira's eyes lightened up from the 'praise'. "We'd like to get to the Sky island! Do you know how to get there?"

Masira thought for a moment and then nodded.

"I do! Well I don't, but Cricket-san does! We could go there together!" he announced.

"YAHOOO!" Luffy shouted and raised both of his hands in the air.

"Ah, by the way! What's in those bags there?" Masira asked and pointed at the three bags by the straw hats feet.

"Ah, the stuff we found on the ship!" Luffy replied. "Want to see?"

"You've been taking stuff from the ship?" Masira asked in a cold, angry voice. Luffy nodded and showed him what was in the bag.

"But you can have it, if you'll really help us." Luffy told him and his anger disappeared instantly. "But please let me keep this awesome armor!"

Luffy pointed at a rusty suit of armor and sword.

"You know, that's probably worth the most!" Masira told him. Luffy pouted.

"But I want to wear it! Isn't it part of every man's romance to one day wear a suit of armor?" he asked. Masira looked struck by his words.

" … Man's romance?" he repeated. Luffy nodded.

"I can't go in the way of a man's romance!" Masira replied. "Keep the armor."

Both of the other straw hats sweat-dropped.

'Man's romance?!'

A few minutes later …

Luffy walked around in his rusty suit of armor. Masira stood on the railing of the Going Merry.

"So you'll help us get there?" Nami asked. Masira nodded.

"I must always help a fellow dreamer!" he replied and raised his chest. "Just follow my ship and we'll get you to Jaya, where Montblanc Cricket lives!"

"But first, we must get some supplies. Is there a town around?" Nami asked. Her eye twitched as Luffy walked past her in armor.

"There's Mock Town. We can stop there." Masira told her.

"YOSH! Let's go to Jaya!" Luffy announced and raised the sword high. Masira jumped on his own ship.

"WHY ARE YOU WEARING THAT?!" Nami yelled. Luffy raised his vizor.

"Because it's cool!" Luffy replied. Her eyes darkened.

"YOU IDIOT!" Nami yelled and punched him. The armor was already weak and shattered on contact.

Luffy angrily pushed the remains of the armor off.

"LET'S GO TO THE STUPID TOWN ALREADY, JERKS!" Luffy shouted. Every straw hat on board cringed at this. Except Robin, who quirked an eyebrow.

'Oh shit … ' Thought Usopp. 'This is bad.'

'Guess lack of sleep isn't the only way for Luffy to get in bad mood.' Thought Sanji.

Zoro smirked. 'Now the witch will think twice before randomly punching people.'

Luffy stomped off towards the figurehead and sat down on it. They followed Masira's ship.

"Um, what was that if I may ask?" Robin asked the others after a few moments. "And why is everyone so nervous?"

"W-W-Well, Luffy is in a bad mood now." Usopp stuttered. "A-And that's scary."

Chopper nodded. Robin looked at them oddly.

"It's all Nami's fault." Zoro told everyone.

"What was that?" Nami yelled with a twitch in her eye and a punch ready.

"Well, if you wouldn't punch people randomly, we wouldn't have to deal with a pissed off Luffy today." He replied.

"It wasn't random!" she yelled. He shook his head.

"Maybe not, but to him it was." Zoro replied.

"He was being stupid and it irritated me!" Nami yelled.

"He really likes armors. I don't know why, but he does." Zoro told her. "Plus, even if it was, this was the first stupid thing he did today."

"HE WOKE US UP AT 5 IN THE MORNING!" Nami yelled. Zoro sighed.

"You're still on about that?" he asked. She glared at him.

"Well, he-" she began.

"If I may interject, Navigator-san, Swordsman-san!" Robin interrupted. Everyone looked at her. "I agree with Swordsman-san."

Nami's face fell, while Zoro smirked.

"He might have waken you up for a stupid reason, but what he did afterward wasn't stupid at all." Robin told them. "He called Red-Haired Shanks, which was a conversation which I think everyone here was interested in, also he took your battle reports, which is a good thing for a captain to do."

"Did you hear how he talked to him?" Nami asked her. "Are you telling me that's not stupid, Robin?"

Robin shook her head.

"Red-Haired didn't seem to mind. In fact, he even sounded amused by it." She told her. Nami sighed in defeat.

"Why are you even so nervous?" Robin then asked.

"Yosh. I, Captain Usopp will explain everything!" Usopp announced. Everyone except Robin and Chopper groaned in annoyance, while the other two looked at him. One in awe and the other expectantly.

"Luffy is usually in a bad mood when he can't sleep because of nightmares." He started.

"Nightmares?" Robin asked. Usopp nodded.

"Luffy often has nightmares. I don't know what they're about, but he usually keeps calling our names. Even yours, Robin." Usopp replied. She quirked her eyebrow. "If it gets so bad that he can't sleep anymore, he is in a really bad mood the whole day."

He sighed.

"The first time this happened was on Baratie, back in East Blue." Usopp continued. "A pirate named Don Krieg invaded the restaurant. Luffy barely even acknowledged the guy, but when he interrupted his conversation with Hawk-Eyes-"

"Wait, Hawk-Eyes?" Robin asked wide-eyed. Usopp nodded.

"Hawk-Eyes came to the restaurant. He was chasing Krieg from the Grand-line. Zoro challenged him and lost." He told her. She glanced at Zoro, who looked on the ground. "When that happened and we thought Zoro had died, Luffy went mad and fought him for a while. Then, when he saw that he was alive, he calmed down."

Robin looked shocked.

"Wait, Captain-san fought the greatest swordsman in the world?" she asked. Usopp nodded. Zoro looked at her.

"Evenly." He told her.

"E-Excuse me?" she stuttered.

"They fought evenly. Well, Hawk-Eyes wasn't really attacking, but he was taking Luffy seriously. When he fought me, he didn't even use his black blade. When he fought Luffy, he had to." He told her. To say that she was shocked was an understatement.

"Ahem." Sanji interrupted. Everyone looked at him now. "Marimo didn't really see it, but the battle was downright scary."

"H-How so?" Robin asked. He looked at her.

"It was crazy. When their swords hit, it was like an explosion happened." Sanji told them. "The windows in front of Baratie all shattered and all the weaklings were sent flying away. The ground cracked beneath them and the sky parted above them. Like I said, it was insane."

Everyone stared at him in shock.

"It's true. Luffy is insanely strong." Usopp told them. "But, like I was saying, when Krieg interrupted their conversation, Luffy just slashed him with his sword. He's usually so cheerful and playful, but when that guy interrupted him when he was in a bad mood, he cut him. Just like that. Might have even killed him. And then he scared the crap out of everyone else."

"I see." Robin answered. "But isn't the solution to this simple this time?"

Everyone looked at her in confusion.

"Well, Captain-san got mad because of the armor, we should tell him we'll get him one when we can!" Robin told them. Then she stood up.

"Where are you going?" Zoro asked her.

"To Captain-san." She replied. Everyone looked at her in shock.

"But he might yell at you!" Usopp told her. She smiled and waved her hand in dismissal.

She walked up to the figurehead.

"Captain-san." She called.

"Hey, Robin." He asked. "What do you want?"

"So you really like armors." She said. He sighed.

"I've always wanted to wear one." He replied.

"You know, even if Navigator-san hadn't punched it, it would still fall apart soon." She told him.

"I know." He replied. "But I wanted to wear it for as long as I could."

"We could always buy you some armor if you'd like." She suggested. He sighed.

"I don't think there are many armor shops anywhere near here." Luffy answered. She turned to leave.

"But thanks, Robin."

A Few minutes (or hours, don't really know) later …

"We're near Mock Town!" Masira yelled from the back of his ship at the Straw hat ship that was following.

Both ships then anchored at the town.

Luffy jumped off the ship and turned around.

"Hey Zoro!" he yelled. "Want to get a drink?!"

Zoro smirked.

"Sure, Captain!" he replied and jumped off.

"Might I also come with you, Captain-san?" Robin asked. Everyone looked at her in confusion (since they didn't expect it), but Luffy just grinned.

"Sure, Robin!" he replied. She went after them.

"Hey guys, no fighting! Don't cause any trouble!" Nami yelled. Luffy turned around shook his head.

"I'll fight if I feel like it!" he answered. He could see Zoro smirk from the corner of his eye.

"What about supplies?!" she yelled. He grinned.

"We'll leave the boring stuff to you guys!" Luffy replied. Robin chuckled in amusement as the navigator started to turn red in anger.

Yay. I'm done. And good thing too, since I haven't uploaded a chapter in two days, thanks to some stupid annoying school crap. And now soesn't want to work. Great.

So anyway, the Straw hats meet Masira and Luffy, since he knows what he's actually like (from the previous life or whatever) uses that info to his advantage.

Then there's some Straw hat bonding. Notice that Luffy's personality is a bit different. He gets mad more easily, like it happened with the armor thing. He's kinda annoyed since he didn't really do anything that he thinks would deserve being punched for (though he doesn't really care about being punched, since he's like a tank, but rather about his armor getting destroyed). Though neither him nor me will drag the armor thing any further, since it's really not that big of a deal.

Also, I intended to do Mock town today too. But I had to do some more stupid crap today (for my parents though), so I'm really too tired to write anymore. (And mad too, since it looks like I won't be able to upload right now).

So, thanks for reading and please review if you will.

(EDIT: Nope, couldn't upload. This is 9 hours later.)