Chapter 50: Of Clouds and Grenades.

Note: From this day on, I better reply to the reviews. It was fun the first time.

Disclaimer: I have found the truth! And it doesn't make any sense!


I shouldn't be amazed really. I've seen this part like... once and that was enough for me. I admit, this is a artistic view, but I wasn't impressed seeing it the second time. Call me a heartless critic, but if I see something and see it again, the whole purpose flees from my mind.

Unless its has something to do with that kind of image. If you know what I mean.

So I left the crew what they wanted to do. Its not like they needed to be babysitted 24/7 – unless that someone is Luffy.

I casually walked towards the treasure chest I found a while back. It was still a mystery, so I better be careful with it. You grow paranoid if you're aware of the hateful glares from people around you.

"This reminds me of that one prank with the manipulated spring clown box and baby powder. A lot of baby powder. Where the second I open this a surprise pops out."

"I still don't understand why you won't slash the lock off like you usual do." My sidekick frowned at me. It wasn't like he was impatient, just curiously impatient. Which is a totally different term for precursors like him.

"What if there's nitroglycerin in it?" I asked out of blue... or white, depends on where you are at the moment.

Daxter facepalmed his snout. "If that would be the case, then we ALL would be dead by now. You'd think with all the motion this box-of-wonder's been through, it would've exploded into tiny bits and bats."

"I guess you're right," I sighed and took out Triton. "taking my life – and others – into an animals hands."

"Hey! I take offence to that!"

I ignored the orange animal slumped on my head and slashed the lock clean off. At that moment I lost my small, yet notiable big ego into thin air, because of the fact that the lock was rusted. Which meant that I could've broke that thing off with my bare hands. But I use discretion, your not allowed to do that while treasure hunting. Not that I know anything about hunting treasures.

"What's that?" A voice asked behind me which I guessed belonged to Zoro. Unfortunately for the both of us, Nami barged from the storage room with the Southbird pecking her head. I chuckled at that, it was kinda ironic when you think about it.

My small laughter got the attention of our navigator who set her eyes immediately at my chest. Not that chest, the treasure chest.

"Oh, so you've opened it." The greedy woman smiled. "Where's the gold and jewels?"

I quirked my eye brow at that. Gold? Jewel? What was she on?

"Dude," Daxter called to me while staring at the chest. "don't you think these look a bit familiar?"

My other brow raised, this time in surprise. In the chest, there was six hand-sized, green... "Is that a hand grenade?" I tentatively asked and picked one up. After studying it for good ten seconds, I grinned a wide grin that would've split my head in two. "Oh my God, it is! It's like Easter bunny just visited us! People are gonna crap their pants if I wave this around. They'll do anything I want." I quickly sealed the grenades – which I recognized were fragmentations ones – in my personal dimensional pocket. They were sorta old-fashioned, but still functional if my memory serves me right. "I'm saving these for later. I'm not gonna waste these babies on just anybody!"

Zoro grimaced at the sight of me being giddy. "Am I correct to assume those are extremely dangerous?"

"Zoro," I began if I was lecturing a kid. Which of course made the swordsman growl. "imagine something like... an onigiri exploding in a room. What would that accomplish?"

"A messy room?" Nami deadpanned at me. I nodded at her with a smile.

"Now imagine the rice of the said onigiri as sharp, deadly steel sharpnels that could easily-!" I was about to explain when the ottsel tailwhipped me in the eye.

"Right~ its cool to tell them about ancient artilleries and not modern chemical warfare." He let out a slight animalistic growl. "I can see why never made friends."

I ignored the jab from the orange thing. "Who needs friends when I have Mk-2 grenades. They're probably registered in someone elses name, so I can blow this place down and get away with it if I want to."

Sure I was given a few wary glances when I said that, but saw that they shrug it off. People tend to do that around me. It's no big deal, really. I like playing behind the shadow.

I suddenly heard three splashes behind me indicating that the last three ships occupants just left. I sighed and closed the empty chest. These grenades were like a god-sent to me. I forgot to make explosive tags earlier and now that I have something slightly more dangerous than that...

...you get the idea.


The rest was really boring from my perspective. We met Conis and the weird fox that was constantly hitting on Daxter, either that or it wanted to eat him. That was funny 'till the cloud fox started to purr around me. I didn't know what was with me and animals, but I guessed that it must be because of my looks. Let's face it, not everyone's cut out to be me.

"Su was it?" I picked the grey fox and held it close to my face for a closer inspection. A chuckle escaped my throat when the fox licked my face. I like cute things; babies, animals, baby animals and exploding babies wearing cute animal costums.

Oh, and ponies! Who doesn't love ponies.

"Yes," Conis answered in that calm voice, but I could detect a slight unrest in her. "she seems to like you."

"Yeah, I have that kind of impact on women, be it humans or animals. No one can resist my charm."

Later we heard a weird, motoristic sound coming from a good distance away from us. I looked at the direction and remembered the thing the old man in it was called a Waver. It was like a Jet Ski albeit one made out of wood and dials. I raised my eye brow at the old man driving it. He seemed a bit clumsy on it and if my calculation were – and usually are – right, he was about to crash at me and the fox.

"Oi! Watch out!" He called out to me. A small smile formed in my lips: time to test something new. I knew the old man was riding the Waver about 40mph with my Sharingan and all. So stopping the thing with a chakra induced muscle sounds like a challenge I'm willing to beat.

I quickly set the fox down and saw it scurry away in haste. "Let's see Newton's second law states that the net force on a particle is equal-..."

"Just stop the damn thing!" Daxter shouted at me, probably annoyed that I was reciting something intrivial about Inertia.

"Alright, alright." I sighed and pumped my right arm with the bluish/green chakra. I could feel my muscle tighten which indicated that I was ready. The second the Waved was close to me, I grabbed it by the handle and stopped it. Just like that, I'm that awesom. "D-rank, borderline C..." I tried to estimate the amount of chakra I poured in. It wasn't much, but it's something. "You alright, Ossan?"

"I'm fine, thank you sonny." I smiled at the round bearded old man with the typical Skypien hair antennas on his bald head. I found it was hilarious seeing his beard move whenever he was talking. "Are these your friend, Conis-san?"

"Yes, we just met." The mistook angel replied. "They came from the Blue Sea."

"I see. That must have been a difficult journey." The old man, now named Pagaya started to apologize for everything. Including him nearly crashing onto me. He was at least courteus enough to invite us into his house for dinner. Luffy and Sanji seemed particularry enthusiastic about it. I answered him with a shrug meaning that it was fine with me.

WHROOOOM!

I looked at the direction from where that came from and sure enough. There was Luffy, riding the Waver like a drunk driver. Conis and her father were worried sick about our Captains health. Us? Not so much.

While the others were mumbling about the waters here and its connection to people with Devil Fruit powers. I took out my hoverboard and glided towards the sinking rubberman.

"Troublesome..." I sighed as I pulled the near unconscious – and round – Luffy with slight difficult. It seems that the hoverboard can't hold onto 2 passangers. Which meant that I had to spam the thing with yet another burst of chakra from my legs. I had to do the same thing to Chopper – who I though jumped after me once he saw I was in danger and tried to save me.

I threw the two Devil Fruit-user on the soft cloud and retracted the hoverboard on its smaller size.

"I'm sorry for asking," Pagaya asked as I sweat dropped at his apolectic side. "but does this one also use Dials?"

I looked at him, then at my board that I attached to the light blue sash I got from Vivi. "Yes and no." Pagaya looked confused, so I explained to him about Globes, pressures. I also explained to him – with the inventor of course – that even though there's no wind here, this thing pressurises the oxygen and other gas related stuff on this atmosphere. Not that the hoverboard needed wind.

We looked to the side and saw Nami riding the Waver like a pro. I smiled at her, as long as she has fun and doesn't get herself – or us for that matter – killed, I'm cool with it.

What can I say? I am a pessimist.

"Ezekiel-kun!" She yelled from the shore. "Come race with me!"

I blinked at her. She wanted a race against me? "Uh, I don't th-"

I was interrupted by the overly cheerful navigator smiling at me. "Don't be such a spoilsport, sensei!" The smile of hers put me a bit of guard. It was genuine yet playful and very much un-Nami-like. Usually she displays a cruel, uncaring side that makes me – and half the crew – smack her head up-side down.

"Just go," Zoro grumbled and turned away from me, probably annoyed at the mushy scene. "have fun or whatever."

I visibly sweat dropped at him. "Gee, thanks for the permission Lord Roronoa." That comment earned me a sword slash that would've nearly eviscerated me. Good thing I knew how to expect those ever since I began to annoy him. "Take a joke, man. You'll never get a date with that kind of attitude." I smiled and expanded the hoverboard once again.

"Hey!" Sanji suddenly yelled. "Why do you get to surf with Nami-san!"

I cocked an eyebrow at him, wondering if he'll also get a date someday with swooning from one woman to another. Sighing, I shook my head to get rid of that thought. Why did I care was beyond me.

"If you have a Waver or some sort of machine to keep up with the Waver, feel free to tag along." I shrugged and jumped up where I quickly set the hoverboard beneath me. I felt really good about it. It doesn't require much chakra beside the small bursts and its helps me improve my chakra control.

"And why can you use that?" A peeved Sanji asked as I kept blinking at him. Why was he so intent on going on a small cruise with her? I'm still questioning my sanity about having to do something with the greedy navigator. Does he feel threatened?

"Must be some sort of alfa thing..." I deadpanned at him and decided to answer the ships cook. "Chakra."

"Chakra?" This time Robin asked with that curious glint in her eyes whenever she sees or hears something unnatural.

"It is a moulding between physical and spiritual energy which all living individuals naturally produce to some degree. Some can utilize it some not." I answered and decided that should be enough to sate her curiousity. If not, she can ask the crew.

"What's taking so long?" Nami yelled from and started revving the Waver with a grin. "Don't tell me you're getting cold feet!"

I looked at my orange sidekick who grunted and begrudgingly got off from my shoulder. "Fine, go and spend time with your girlfriend. It doesn't matter anymore."

"She's not my girlfriend..." I was 'this' close to summon my hand grenade and blow the animal into bits.

"Sure..." Daxter rolled his eyes and climbed on Usopp shoulder.

"Okey, okey I go," I grumbled and kicked the cloud to propel myself forward, leaving a small dust of white cloud behind. "What is it you troublesome lady?"

Nami narrowed her eyes at me, but quickly regained her disturbing, large smile. "C'mon! I wanna race ya!"

"What's with the cheery attitude?" I questioned as I got closer to her.

"What attitude?" Nami cutely tilted her head to the side. Its like everytime we're alone, she's a complete different person.

"The second you boarded the Waver, your personality made a complete turn." I narrowed my eyes in thought at her weird moodswings. "You're pregnant aren't you?"

Shock was visible on her face, that is until it quickly changed into anger, then rage. A quick stomp later, she was right behind my ass, literally. And I wouldn't be surprised if she tears it off once she's caught up to me.


After lots of yelling, I let her won the race just to be on her good side. I've already angered a lot of women in my past and decided that a pause would be in order. Hell hath no fury like a woman annoyed... or was it scorned?

Now back to our dilemma. Here, in front of us, was a huge ass island with its gigantic trees and what not. I remembered this place being called: Upper Yard. And that it was dangerous with its gods, priest and...

"So there's earth on Sky Island too..." Nami mused.

"Yup, not as exotic as Little Garden, but it'll have to do." I grinned and hovered a bit closer.

"How old do you think this island is?" She asked, somewhat intrested in my opinion.

"Four... maybe five hundred years old, I don't know." I answered while looking up at the trees. "The trees are so biiiig. Must be because of the decrease in the atmosphere."

"I'm sure of it!" A random voice yelled from the jungle in front of us. "A treasure is definitely... somewhere around here! It's within our grasp!"

"Treasure?" I gulped and looked at the serious Nami with a look of regret. "I know you want to see that, but maybe it isn't a good idea to go any further."

"Why not? There's somebody there." She blinked at me. "What if they need help?"

I stared at her for a while, not believing that human lives outweighted gold and jewels. "So? Their probably some stray lost in there. I'm sure they're not related to Zoro so no worries."

"We're almost there! Hurry!" The voice frantically shouted this time.

"It came from here." Nami said and drove towards the huge rift of the island next to us. Sighing, I followed her not out of concern, but for my own curiousity. What I saw first was a boat, a bit beat up from the sides, but works better than gramps rusty revolver.

"Coasts clear." I mumbled and hovered closed to the boat. I immediately noticed that it had a huge Breath Dial in it. Which meant that this thing must be faster than the Waver. I boarded the boat first as precaution. Seeing as there wasn't much in it beside a bottle and a backpack. I offered the navigator my hand and helped her aboard.

"Thank you." She smiled and walked towards the rail of the boat. "Claw marks..." I heard her talk. "Were they attacked by something?"

"That or they have a large cat with them." I joked with a chuckle.

"I'm sure of it!" The voice shouted again. Nami flinched and hid behind my back. "A treasure is definitely... somewhere around here!" We both looked at the weird shell dial and the odd green bird sitting on its apex. "An extraordinary treasure is here! It's within our grasp! I can feel it."

"T-The shell talked!" The scardy-cat behind me exclaimed. I shrugged her hands off from my shoulder and picked the thing up. "It's a shell, right?"

"If it looks like a shell, then its a shell." I deadpanned at her short-sighness.

"It's not like there's someone inside it."

I ignored her and decided to press the apex one more time. "Listen, if we keep this journal, it may be valuable later!"

"This shell... can record voices." Nami gasped in surprise.

"N-No! I'm going back! I-I'm scared. I can feel it... God's wrath! What's that sound? It's... God! AAAAAAAHHH!"

"God..." I said, tasting the word with a scowl.

"They were killed..." Nami stated with wide eyes and pale skin. "...By God..." The leaves above us were billowing by the wind. It gave off a eerie feeling to us. Like something bad is about to happen, like in the movies. "W-We should go back. This is creepy. The farther away from here, the better."

RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

The place we were in shook a bit. After that, we heard a loud male scream coming from the over grown jungle.

"Help me!" The same voice we just heard from the Tone Dial shouted. I wasn't that intrestred to see what was chasing the voice. I quickly grabbed Nami and set her on the Waver. Once she was in, I jumped aboard and commanded her – out of panic – to get us out of here. It wasn't because of the scream of terror, but because I felt someones eyes land on me. Like a predator waiting for the perfect moment to lung at us. It was highly unsettling.

"What is that!" Nami shrieked as she drove us away from the clearing. I kept looking behind us, waiting for the mysterious eyes to attack us. It didn't register to me until later that I noticed Nami stopping the Waver. "W-What's going on? There's something happening in that forest."

Suddenly I felt a present behind me. Turning around, there was the masked bullman aiming his bazooka at us. Or so it looked like from my point of view.

"Duck!" I shouted and shielded my student from the shot...

BOOM!

...and the shockwave.

I kept glaring at the man who attacked us twice this day, but quickly changed my stare at the survival of the bazooka onslaugh. He looked like he's seen better days with blood and dirt all over him. The man slumped on the cliff and stared at us for a seconds.

"Oi! Help me! Let me on!" The man held his hand to us. Not that I can reach him, but took that as some sort of sign for us.

"But..." Nami stammered a bit and looked at me. "It's already full..."

"I came from another Sky Island seeking treasure! But that doesn't matter anymore! I'm begging you!"

Nami looked like she was in panic and looked for a extra place in the Waver. What she didn't notice was the Killer Intent sent to us by the red-haired man. I gently grabbed Nami by the shoulder and set her behind me.

"Rule number one, Nami-chan," I said while keeping my eyes glaring at him. "Never trust a desperate man."

"What?" She asked, completely confused.

"I-I'm getting on even if I have to kill you!" The stranger shouted and unsheated his dagger. That is until he looked further and froze in fear. "A guerilla!"

I didn't know what happened. The red-haired man was about to attack us, but stopped and gazed up at the light particles raining on him. He dropped the dagger, as if he has given up on his life and prayed to a God.

"Shit!" My eyes widened when I remembered who's abilities that belonged to, but was too late as the giant pillar of azure light came down upon him. Like a God judging a sinful man.

BOOOOOOOM!

Another of those shockwaves reached us, this time it was hundred times more dangerous than the measly bazooka. I could see that it vaporized small part of the island into ash. I saw the giant pillar move towards the bullman as me and Nami tried to set the Waver straight and not collide on the rocks.

After that little scheme, I drove the thing and hid us from the view of those priest. They began to belittle the poor guy who just died. I gulped when they started to talk about nine Blue Sea dwellers entering here.

"I th-!" I clasped Nami's mouth shut. It wasn't like I was afraid of those priest or Enel. No, it was that I shouldn't be affecting the storyline by getting involved as much as I already have.

That or I was just too tired to do anything about it.

I turned the Waver and get us the hell out of there. "God eh?" I smiled a bit, this is getting more and more intresting by the second. "Hopefully not one of those Six Path lunatics."

"We have to hurry back and tell the others! This place is dangerous!" Nami shouted to my ear. I looked down and saw her arms were wrapped around my torso. It brought memories of Angel scratching my skin everytime I did something stupid.

"On it!" I fake saluted and steered the Waver towards Angel Island. "So yeah, we let a man die and heard that were being hunted. Not my kind of welcoming party, but who am I to judge how people welcome their tourist."

Nami gave a light punch to my back and wrapped her arm around my neck where she leaned her head on my shoulder. I was startled of course and nearly lost my balance, but luckily held on to it. My cool would've been reduced to zero. We don't need that.

"Hey," Nami suddenly said after a minute of silence. "how come you know how to drive this?"

"We-e-eell..." I drawled out with a small sweat running down my forehead. "I guess I'm a natural talent too." I nerveously chuckled at her. "I copied this little trick from you."

"What do you think happened there?" She asked after another minute of silence.

I thought about her answer. Sure, I could tell them about Enel, but that would be telling. "I better do what I've been doing so far: go with the flow." I thought and came up with an answer for her. "Probably a guy with a powerful Devil Fruit powers."

"You think or you know?" I could feel her deadpan at me. Obviously thinking that I have a few lose screws in my head.

"Call it a sixth sense without the ghost and confusions." I chuckled and put the purple visor I stole from Sarquiss on.

"Those guys back there knew we'd arrived at Sky Island!" Nami shouted at my ear, again. "Something might've happened to Luffy and the others!"

"Oh, please." I lightly scoffed at that. "Something's bound to happen to them by now. I'm sure of it."

"How can you say that!"

"One does not simply avoid trouble." I grinned and upped the speed. Much to Nami's fear as she nearly choked me to death. Good thing I know how to negotiate, otherwise there would be one Straw Hat less. After driving for a while, we saw the shore of Angel Island and with it a bunch of guys in weird costumes I identified as the White Berets. "Case in point."

She just ignored me and looked towards the shore in worry. "Please don't do anything stupid, guys!"

"Please do something stupid, guys!" I shouted while ignoring Nami's glare.

"Luffy, don't make those guys mad!"

"Luffy, make those guys mad!"

Nami had enough and gave a short slap to the back of my head. "I'm serious!"

"No your not! Sirius is dead!" I shouted back at her.

"Nami! Ezekiel! Use your money to pay the 9,000,000 beli illegal entrance fee!" I heard Usopp shout at us.

"That's great! So this can be settled if we pay a fine!" Nami yelled back, a bit too cheery for my taste as I felt the Killing Intent rising from her. "9,000,000 beli..." She leaned closer to my ear and whispered something that made me grin.

"With pleasure, ma'am!" I sped the Waver to its max speed towards the closest White Beret and rammed it into his head.

"THAT'S TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE!" We both yelled at the same time. I was actually excited. The Waver can get up to 75mph so of course I was excited to drive something this fast! Back home I would've been arrested driving this fast.

KA-POW! CRASH!

The White Beret crashed on to the nearby terrace wall with a sickening crunch. I knew the guy was alive so I wasn't worried. "And that's why you should never drink and drive!"

"Oh no!" Nami yelled, like she was awoken by some sort of trance. "In my anger over that ridiculous sum of money, we accidentally..."

"Oi, it was you who told me to ram this thing on his head." I shouted at her and dragged the Waver towards Pagaya. "Oji-chan! Thanks for the Waver. I can't remember the last time I had this much fun!"

"No, it was nothing. I'm sorry." Pagaya, for some reason, apologized to us with a humble bow. "More importantly, you are in quite a predicament!"

"Ha!" I grinned and pointed an accusing finger at Nami. "Told ya so!"

"Hmph," Nami huffed at me, not wanting to admit that I was right.

"Awesome dude!" Daxter climbed on my shoulder with his ever present grin. "How much?"

"Let's see..." I thought to myself for a while. "That would be about 12868N right on his ugly mutt. I'm not sure, the Waver's much lighter than the Ski jet"

"Ouch," Daxter winced and looked at the gathered White Berets. "hate to be him."

I gazed my head at Nami telling everyone about everything we saw. I just kept laughing that I caused someone a permanent migrane. These guys here are much more durable than the 'humans' back home. They step on a banana peel and that's it.

"Why did you do that!" Usopp shrieked and waved his hands like a headless chicked trying to fly.

"For the lols, I guess." I picked my ear to get rid of the ringing noise. "Its not like I commited a crime, right?"

I heard Zoro sigh after Usopps banters about something I didn't care. "What kind of crime did those two commited just now?"

"Most likely obstruction of a public servant, a Class-5 crime." Pagaya explained.

"Good. It's still only a Class-5." Usopp sighed, wiping a small trail of sweat from his forehead.

"It's not good!" Conis suddenly shouted. I of course ignored her saying something about cloud-drifting with God Enel. Mostly because I sat down cross-legged and played with the cloud fox. It was just so cute you could pinch her little head off.

"Who's the cutest fox in the whole wide world?" I baby talked the animal to the death. I mean seriously, babies and cute animals are my weakest spot ever since I became a mother. But you have to give me some props. Being a single mom is hard work. Even though this mom's a pirate and hardly keeps up with the development of her kins.

"HEY, YOU PUNKS!" The White Berets yelled at us. "Do you have any idea what you've done to the Captain!"

"Please don't get so upset." Nami tried to pacified them with that sweet talk she usually does to those she's about to rip off. "My friend here is a bit... short handed..."

"Hey!" I shouted and stood up with the fox while glaring at Nami. "You just told me to inflict pain to someone in the name of Jashin-sama!"

"I did not!"

"See! He admits that you harmed the Captain with ill intention!"

"No, no, no!" Nami palmed her hands with a nerveous giggle. "What he meant was that it was all just an accicent. See, he comes from a place where people greet each other like that."

Several people plus animal sweat dropped at the way Nami put the excuse. "Correction; my people usually greet others with a friendly hug. Not crash into another bystander unless you're as drunk as Zoro on friday morning."

"Shut up!"

"Make me!"

"Just ignore them," Nami glared at the two of us. "Just as I said, it was all an accident. You see, it's so difficult to maneuver a Waver, isn't it? And today was our first time riding one. The handling is so sensitive. How clumsy of him. Beginners should definitely keep away from such dufficult things. They should, shouldn't they?"

"You just commented how great I was!" I pouted. "You even said that-!"

"Oi, Ezekiel!" Usopp wrapped his arm around my neck and pulled me back while whispering to my ear. "Nami's got things under control with this accident story, so keep your mouth shut!"

"Oh, that Ezekiel-kun! Something like that can't possibly be true!"

"Objection!" I shouted in my rare moment of seriousness and judo-threw the liar off from me.

"What did you want to object to?" One of the Berets inquires while glaring at me.

I thought about it for a minute until I rubbed the back of my head with a sheepish grin. "Sorry, I always wanted to say that." Several face faults later, Pagaya talked with the second-in-command and suggested that they treat their Captain in his house. "At least the got them off our back."

"The nine of you stay there and don't move! UNDERSTAND!"

"Yes sir yes!" I fake saluted at them and laughed when they began to crawl off. "Damn perverts crawling around like they own the place."

"So they are perverts." Chopper nodded to himself, as if he just discovered something worthwhile noticing.

"I know that you are not bad people." Conis said and turned at towards us with a serious expression. "So please, hurry back home!" That said, she and the cloud fox ran away from us.

"We should listen to her!" Nami exclaimed and gave us the same serious face as Conis just did. "We saw it with our own eyes! An island filled with terrifying people!"

Usopp and Chopper flinched at that. "So you guys did go to that forbidden holy place." Zoro nodded and looked at me. "Was it really that dangerous?"

"Meh," I shrugged. "Weird sounds, people killing other people and mysterious light particles falling from the sky and killing even more people. I say the place sounds like fun."

"R-Really!" Chopper shouted in absolute fear.

"I'm sure there's a place where everythings in harmony with its own little pool and candies and marshmallows." I chuckled at him and laughed once I saw Luffy's starry eyes that held so much glitter in it that would make a kindergarten girl cry in jealousy.

"The place we must never, ever set foot? Terrifying people?" Luffy obviously forgot about the part where people die and focused on the more... happier... thoughts.

"I'm not sure if they're Gods or guerrilas, but I am sure they're nothing but trouble! Anyway, we're leaving! Right now!" Nami shouted while giving me a glare.

Yup, I'll never understand women.


So we decided that leaving is for the best. Unless we want to cause Conis and her father more problems than we already did. I went inside the guys room and searched for something comfortable to wear since Nami thought it would be a good idea to hide my silky shirt. She'll probably sell it for a fortune and buys more clothes for herself.

"Wouldn't surprise me at all." I sighed, wondering what I'm gonna do with her. "Wonder if master ever felt this way towards me."

I decided to wear a plain turqoise open shirt with white/greyish outline. It was one of those rare shirts I bought from our shopping trip with Nami. Not that I'll ever admit to her, but it was quite enjoyable.

"Gomu Gomu no Hanabi! (Firework!)"

The first thing I saw in the shore was Luffy wrapping himself in his own arms and legs like a deranged rubber ball. He then unwrapped himself from it and unleashed a flurry of punches and kicks at the misfortuned Berets. I whistled appreciatively at him, catching Choppers attention once I was out. "He's gotten faster too, impressive."

"What do you mean?"

I looked at the reindeer questioning me with a grin. "Like it or not, I'm keeping tracks about your developments here." I looked at Usopp with narrowed eyes. "Even yours..."

"Oi, oi... you don't have to be so harsh." He looked down while drawing circles on Merry's head.

I put the visors on my head while looking at the shore where Sanji and Zoro beat up those left from Luffy's attacks. "Deal with it."

"So... cool!" Chopper looked at me with those same starry eyes Luffy had few minutes ago. It was endearing to say the least.

"Hahahahahahah!" The Captain of the White Berets laughed at us. "You fools! Complete idiots! There's no going back now! You should have just obediently followed our orders! The White Berets are the most gentle and understanding of all the guardians in Godland!"

"I call bullshit on that!"

I was ignored as the Beret Captain grinned even more. "But they... will not be so forgiving! You are now Class-2 criminals! Beg and plead all you want. The Priest of Upper Yard..." He pointed his finger at us with a victorious smile. "...will be the ones to judge you!"

"How charming..." Me and Daxter deadpanned at him with sweat drops of our own.


[To Be Continued]


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