"The Earthshaker?" Franky asked her teasingly, "What's that supposed to mean?"
Robin had laughed and gently swatted her friend on his blue head, "If you're going to ridicule me, I won't read to you anymore."
"No! Anything but that!"
Oh, how Robin yearned for simpler times.
She'd give anything to be curled up in a secluded corner of the Sunny, reading to Franky and cherishing the big, booming laughs he'd give her when she presented him with a fascinating bit of knowledge.
Looking at her injured, exhausted friends, Robin knew that her simpler times would have to wait.
"ZORO!" Luffy wailed again.
Just as he had when they'd met, Percy put a rough, calloused hand on Robin's shoulder.
"Everyone, take Zoro and get out of here!" he shouted, "I'll hold them off!"
Everyone, including the marines, looked at Percy. The young demigod was white as a sheet.
"Percy…"said Nami.
"LUFFY IF YOU WANT TO LIVE THAN GO!" Percy hollered, "I'LL MEET YOU AGAIN IN 3 DAYS!"
Luffy gulped, "Understood!"
"Percy!" Franky cried. Robin pulled him with her.
"We need to go," she said, "Remember the passage I read to you in the book the other night?"
"No…?"
The Strawhats glanced behind them as they ran.
"Oho," said Admiral Kizaru, "You're the famous Percy Jackson, are you? I have orders to take you to Marie Jois alive, you know. I wonder what makes you so special…"
Usopp scooped up Zoro while the admiral was distracted.
"Ugh," Zoro grunted, "Percy…"
Percy was white and trembling, but he held his sword aloft with shaking hands.
"Thank you for letting me sail with you!" he shouted, "I promise we'll meet again in the New World!"
And with an unholy scream, Percy drove his sword into the ground.
"Oh…?" said Kizaru.
The ground began to roll under their feet.
"Everyone run for your lives!" Nami screamed.
'Poseidon the Earthshaker' the book had called him.
The Strawhats had just made it across the bridge to the next Grove when Grove 1 and all the other Groves around it, exploded.
"PERCY!"