From the Sky

"Cade, let's go explore that ship." Luffy wound his arm around Usopp and Cade's waists. Grabbing the damaged ship he flung them over. While the two boys dug around the debris she examined the ship.

"It's just a normal ship. Nothing special about it at all." Cade tapped her foot on the wood. The ship started sinking. "We better get back to Merry. This ship is going down. With all these holes I'm surprised it's not sinking faster."

"Okay. You're going to be surprised at what I found." Luffy turned to her. He stepped towards her, tripped on a broken piece of wood, and rolled into the ocean.

Cade dove after him. Pulling his arm over her shoulder she swam him back to the ship.

"Hey! What about me?!" Usopp called from the sinking ship.

"You can swim. Better hurry. Sharks could be nearby." Cade tossed the sniper a smirk.

"What?!" Usopp dashed passed Cade and Luffy.

"Fasht svimmer," Luffy mumbled.

"When he wants to be." Cade swam to the ship. She grabbed the rope ladder, that Zoro dropped, and hauled Luffy up to the deck.

"Hey, everyone! Look what I got! I found something really cool! Look at this!" Luffy held up the map.

Nami took the map. "A map of a sky island?! Skypiea?"
"Doesn't that mean there really is an island up there?!" Luffy's eyes sparkled.

"It seems so." Cade eyed the map.

"All right! Usopp! Chopper! There is a sky island! A dream island! Let's go for it!" Luffy said.

"Dream island?" Zoro asked.

"Don't get so worked up. It's just a possibility." Nami rolled up the map. "There are too many fake maps out there."

A depressive aura fell over Usopp, Luffy, and Chopper.

"There is. There is. There must be one." Nami waved her hand.

"Too late. You've crushed them," Cade said.

Nami punched the mast. "All I want to say is I don't know how to get there!"

"Hey! Easy on the ship!" Usopp said.

"You're a navigator, right?! Think of something!" Luffy said.

"There is something called impossible, you know!" Nami said.

"I don't care! I want to go up there!" Luffy said.

"Nami is so cute when she's yelling!" A heart floated around Sanji's head.

"We can't just go on anymore." Nami lifted the log pose. "The log pose stays pointing up. What we need now is information like Robin said. If it's possible for such a big ship to get up there, it must be possible for us too."

"First you say it's not possible and now you say it's possible," Cade said. "Make up your mind."

"Anyway." Nami gave Cade a cold glance. "We need to get our hands on that ship's router."

"But it's totally sunk now." Usopp leaned against the mast.

"If it's sunk then we'll just have to salvage it!" Nami said.

"Right!" Usopp and Luffy pumped a fist in the air. "We're going exploring."

"Is it even possible?" Zoro asked.

"Of course it is. We have a fishman on our crew after all." Nami pointed at Cade.

"I'm not searching for treasure for you!" Cade gnashed her teeth.

"Oh don't worry." Nami waved. "You're not going to go alone."

"Do I even want to know what she's up to?" Cade asked as Nami grabbed Usopp and disappeared into the ship.

Thirty minutes passed before the two came back out carrying some barrels and tubing.

"Put these on," Nami said to Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro.

"You can't be serious," Zoro said.

"Just do it!" Nami shoved a barrel at the swordsman.

A few minutes later the boys were ready.

"You guys look ridiculous." Cade eyed the makeshift suits.

"I like it!" Luffy grinned.

"Are you sure this is going to work?" Zoro asked.

"Nami! I will find the thing that will bring us up to the sky!" Sanji said.

"It's up to you now." Nami crossed her arms.

"Don't worry! My work is as good as perfection." Usopp nodded.

Cade sighed. "Let's get this over with." She jumped over the railing. Water brushed her skin. Seconds later the boys appeared. She hung close to them as they descended to the ship. "You okay, Luffy?"

"Yeah." Luffy nodded. "Getting plenty of air."

Cade swam close to him, keeping an eye on him and the device for any signs of losing air. Turning a corner they entered a room.

Luffy picked up something that looked like a tiny boat. "What is this thing?"

"No idea."

Luffy hummed then abandoned the object. They continued their search through the darkened ship. They came to a room where Sanji and Zoro were. Skeletons lay about the room. One had a hold in its skull. One had a spear jammed into where the chest would have been.

Suddenly the wall crack and snapped. A black mass broke through the woods. Air filled the ship.

"We're rising," Cade said as water ran out of the ship.

"So we can take these off." Luffy pulled off his barrel.

"I wouldn't do that," Sanji said.

"See! It's okay if we take off the barrels." Luffy jumped up on his barrel.

"I don't think that this much air could come down here," Zoro said. "But who is trying to lift the ship?"

"Could something have happened to Nami and Robin?" Sanji said. "I tried to contact them many times but didn't get a response."

"Who dares to cause trouble in my part of the sea?!" A monkey barreled into the room.

"A monkey," Luffy said.

"Eh? Do I really look like a monkey?" The creature pushed up his sunglasses.

"Yeah, you look more like a monkey than a real money," Luffy said.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Zoro asked.

"What?" The guy tilted his head.

"Who are you?" Sanji asked.

"Hey! I'm the one asking the questions! You're not from around here are you?" the guy asked.

"No. We're from the East Blue," Cade said.

"Really? You guys came from the East Blue?" The monkey man smiled.

"Yeah. You really look like a monkey," Luffy said.

"Stop! You're making me blush!" Red appeared on the monkey man's cheeks. "Hold on a second! We're not friends here! You're trying to steal my salvage!"

"Time to go! Now!" Cade grabbed onto Luffy and shot out of the sea and lands on the deck with Zoro and Sanji close behind.

"What happened to you two? Where's Luffy's barrel?" Nami asked. "Is he dead?"

"What? Of course not!" Cade pointed to her brother. "Can't you see he's right here and breathing?!"

"Zoro! Sanji!" Usopp said.

"Let's go! We have to get out of here!" Zoro said.

"That guy was a pain," Sanji said.

"You're safe! Ah! We should run away from that giant sea turtle first!" Usopp said.

"Turtle? No it was just a monkey," Zoro said.

"Must be some kind of sea monster," Sanji said.

"It was friendly at first," Luffy said.

"Only because you both are monkeys." Zoro tapped Luffy on the head.

"You guys aren't making any sense," Usopp said.

"It didn't make sense and we were there," Cade said.

"But when it saw these sacks full of stuff we found, he started going berserk on us." Zoro sat down the sack he was holding.

"What monkey are you all talking about?" Chopper asked.

"This monkey looking guy appeared down in the ship," Cade said. "He was friendly at first then started blaming us for stealing his work or something."

"He was like a crazy gorilla," Sanji said.

"Yeah, that's Masira. He's here to recover the sunken ship," Nami said. "Good job escaping from that giant sea turtle's mouth."

"Turtle? What turtle?" Luffy asked.

Cade turned around to see the giant turtle floating by the ship. "Oh, that turtle. Where did it come from?"

"You're just now noticing?!" Nami screamed.

"Huh? That's weird. The turtle has it's mouth wipe open," Usopp said. "No wonder you were able to escape."

"You mean we were inside that thing?" Cade asked.

"Whoa! What the heck is that?!" Zoro and Sanji asked.

"You're just now noticing?!" Usopp said. "That thing swallowed the ship with you guys in it!"

"Huh? Is it nighttime already?" Luffy asked as dark clouds rolled over the sky.

"Luffy! Help moved the ship out!" Usopp said.

"You! Can't leave!" Masira shot out of the ocean and landed on the ship. "You think you can just come into my territory?! Steal my treasure and just run away from me?!"

"Treasure?!" Nami clasped her hands together. "You found treasure?!"

"Yup! Lots of it!" Luffy smiled.

Cade lifted her fists.

"This is bad, if he does berserk on the ship..." Zoro pulled out a sword.

"C-Captain! D-danger!" a man from the other ship said.

"Huh? What?" Masira turned to his ship.

Five giants appeared in the sky. All with wings on their backs.

Cade swirled her water. "What the heck are those things?!"

"Monsters!" Luffy and Masira said.

The boys grabbed the oars and paddled as fast as they could. Cade dashed to the back of the ship. Swirling her water she pushed them along until the darkness faded into light.

"What the heck were those things?" Cade brushed her chin with her arm.

"Good question." Sanji puffed his cigarette. "Nothing could be that big.
What a weird day."

"A galleon fell from the say," Zoro said.

"The log pose keeps pointing up." Nami sat down and crossed her arms over her knees.

"The strange monkey appeared to recover the sunken ship," Usopp said.

"A giant sea turtle ate the ship," Chopper said.

"The sky went black." Robin rested her chin on her hand.

"Finally giant monsters a hundred times bigger than regular giants showed up," Luffy said.

"Yup. That really scared me." Masira nodded.

Everyone turned to him. The monkey man was sitting cross legged on the deck.

"Get out of here!" Luffy, Sanji and Zoro kicked Masira off the ship.

Cade shielded her eyes. "Nice kick."

Pushing aside what happened the crew turned back to the bags that held the stuff they salvaged from the ship. Luffy pulled on a suit of armor and started prancing around the deck.

"Hey, did you guys forget what you went underwater for?!" Nami yelled. "All you brought back was trash! And nothing about how we can get to the sky!"

"There was nothing else in it." Zoro shrugged.

"Yeah, that's true, Nami-swan," Sanji said. "That ship had obviously been attacked. Either that or there was some sort of disagreement that caused them to turn on each other."

"If that's so, then information is even more crucial. Don't you get it? If we went into the sky right now, whatever happened on that sunken ship could happen to us too." Nami slammed her foot on the junk pile. "The information we have can mean life and death. Look at this stuff! Rusted swords. Food ware. Octopus. What I need are things like a diary or sea charters, not this junk."

"Then you should have went down yourself. Stop blaming the guys for something they have no control over," Cade said.

Nami turned to Luffy. "And what's that?"

"Armor to protect me from harm."

"You..." Nami pulled back her fist then lowered it when Cade shifted. She walked off. "Forget it."

"Nami-swan! I brought back this beautiful shell for you!" Sanji held up the shell.

"I don't want it, you idiot!" Nami snapped as she walked up to the figurehead.

"Well, what should we do with all this stuff?" Cade looked at their finds from the ship. "Doesn't look like any will be useful."

"Okay! Turn towards Jaya! Full speed!" Luffy shouted.

"We're leaving?" Cade asked.

"Yup! Robin got another log pose from that ship," Luffy said.

"The monkey face's?" Cade asked and Luffy nodded.

"It's a long shot, but we might be able to find information there," Nami said.

"Wait a second." Usopp munched on his food. "If we just go directly to Jaya, won't the record be overwritten when we're there? In other words, we won't be able to get to sky island."

"Stop moving towards Jaya!" Luffy crossed his hands like an X in front of his face. "Hey, Nami! What's going on here?!"
"Going to Jaya was your decision, right?" Nami asked.

"Yeah. That's right. But I don't think that the situation would turn out like this."

"You didn't think, it's your fault then. The log pose has always been like that."

"Yeah you're right. All right then. Listen, I'm the captain so I'll decide where we go. I want to go to sky island."

"Sure, how will you get there?"

"The fastest way is to just asked around for information," Usopp said.

"Right. We can ask around in Jaya." Nami nodded.

"All right! To Jaya, full speed!" Luffy cheered.

"Hey! We just went back to where we were!" Usopp punched Luffy on the head.

"When we're there, the record won't be set so fast. How about if we leave Jaya before the record is set?" Robin said.

"It will depend on luck then," Nami said.

"We'll just have to ask how long it'll take," Cade said.

"Let's go! To the kingdom of meat!" Luffy said.

"Not going to happen, Luffy. There's no such place." Cade tapped his head. "Eat your food."