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CHAPTER 2
Timeline : 4 Years, 6 months before the Straw Hats pirates.
Time since Enel became God : 1 Year 6 Months
Months passed, seasons coming and going, as everyone slowly put behind them the bloody war that always loomed in their mind.
Soon enough, the biggest problems were tackled and solved, the Shandia tribe, who always knew nothing but war managed to find talents they could put to use in helping their new home prosper.
Enel approached the People of Birka and they agreed to join the Alliance between Skypieans and Shandorians, with help from an old prototype from Birka's elders, their island was moved closer to Skypiea, allowing them to set foot on Upper Yard and it's resources.
Enel, with the addition of his homeland Birka, created a council, with each tribe electing someone as their voice.
Much to the amusement of every Skypieans and Shandorians who knew him, Gan Fall, who had retired and was living happily in a little house at the edge of Upper yard, was voted as the Skypieans Voice, Enel especially found it hilarious, laughing till he gasped for air, it would teach that old man to leave him in charge of a country without saying a word beforehand.
With no surprise, Wyper was named the Voice of the Shandorians, after all, who better to be their Voice than the descendant of the great warrior Kalgara and the one who ended an unending war.
Wyper was happy for the trust everyone put in him, until he saw the paperwork, then he cursed each and every shandorians invidually for weeks.
The most surprising to Enel was the Birkian's choice for their Voice, he had expected one of their elders, the kind old men who talked about the good old days and telling stories to the village's kids on their small plaza.
It was one of the Priests, Ohm, that was elected, for a moment, as he remembered the character he had watched so long ago, Enel feared the worst.
But instead, he found that Ohm was, while still obsessed with his 'pursuit of Happiness', the Ohm he had now met was not a bloodthirsty man under Enel's command, violently killing innocents to bring them 'Salvation'.
In his place, he met a man who wanted nothing more than to make sure Birka's people could live happily without knowing what despair is and Enel agreed with that goal.
It was sudden, one moment, Enel was going through reports, reviewing the progress on his latest project to further help Skypiea prosper, the next he surprised everyone around him as his peculiar laugh 'Yahahaha' exploded out of him.
Enel, almost always calm and composed, except for that one time no one talks about in his direct vicinity, (Everyone knows Enel can hear them anyway, but het lets them get away with it.) suddenly pounding his fist on the conference table was a sight no one expected today.
His laughter slowly wound down, wiping a tear that threatened to flow down, he saw everyone looking curiously at him and explained, "Cricket had most interesting visitors today, ones I am not sure if evolved from monkeys or devolved into ones." He chuckled again.
"Pardon me, their scream of incredulity when Cricket explained to them that he already found and rung the bell of Shandora was extremely funny to me, we should expect Cricket soon with company, he's excited to prove to someone else that Noland was not a Liar."
"I'll go prepare for his arrival!" Wyper said, trying to get up from his side of the table, before quickly getting hit on the back of the head by a tall, dark-haired women with a ponytail and bangs on either side of her head. "Ow, what the hell Raki! Why'd you hit me?!"
"There's no way I'm letting you evade the paperwork again, you've been falling behind everyone else." Raki retorted calmly, not taking her eyes away from the paper she was reading. "Now sit down and help me finish, before I force you to."
Wyper grumbled, but sat down again nonetheless.
"Gedatsu, please go and inform Amazon that we will have visitors coming soon." Enel asked the tall dark-skinned man wearing matching purple vest and pants that was standing to the side of Ohm.
After a few second of silence, Enel glanced at Gedatsu, and saw him with his bottom lips stuck in his mouth, trying to talk but muffling all sounds and smiled, "Gedatsu, you need to open your mouth to speak."
"Ah! How Careless of me, I apologize God Enel, I shall go at once!" Gedatsu shouted his apologies ran out of the room, before the sound of Milky dials activating was heard faintly.
"I sometime wonder how it is possible for him to live normally, with how many bad habits he has." Raki mused alound, everyone nodded at her words.
Enel turned to the next report and after reading the first line, he smiled. "Finally..."
The sound of an entire crew of people passing through Heaven's gate and arriving at Angel Beach, the screams of horror when a giant Shrimp grabs them, followed by the "Ooh's" and "Aah's" as they take in the sight in front of them reminds Cricket of the first time he took that path himself.
The brothers Shoujo and Masira, along with their crew looked around, eyes wide open, afraid that if they blink everything will disappear.
Their boats stopped just short of the white beach and Cricket jumped down, he saluted their welcoming party "Heso!"
"Heso, Mister Cricket, it is great to see you again." Gan Fall, the Skypiean's Voice saluted him, before turning to the crew behind him, "And Heso to you all as well, it is a pleasure and an honor to welcome you all on Skypiea, I am Gan Fall."
"I am Masira, Captain of the Masira Pirates!" a human with ape-like features, wearing an orange-yellow jumpsuit with a big fur coat around his shoulders, headphones, and goggles introduced himself.
"Salvage King" Masira
23.000.000 Beri
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Another large man who looks like an orangutan with long green hair, wearing a Green winter coat closed because of the low temperature and Green Captain's hat with a Jolly Roger on it also introduced himself, "And I am Shoujo, captain of the Shoujo Pirates!"
"Sonar King" Shoujo
36.000.000 Beri
Wanted Dead Or Alive
"And It is an honor to be here!" both Man looking Monkeys finished at the same time.
"Anything interesting happened while I was down there?" Cricket asked curiously, to which Gan Fall nodded.
"Actually yes, some very good news came this morning to God Enel." He replied, the happiness at the news coloring his voice as he remembered reading the report. "Our Engineers have finished, It is finally ready."
"Truly?!" Cricket exclaimed, not quite believing his ears, when Gan Fall nodded again and confirmed it, both crews of pirates looked on confused as their boss' boss strated laughing uproariously.
"Uh, Boss Cricket, what is finished?" Masira asked his laughing boss.
Slowly, Cricket's laughter turned into a few chuckles and he replied mysteriously, "You'll see, it is going to be amazing is all I can say.
After all, that project has been in construction for a year now." he finished, before following Gan Fall, who led them to their lodgings for their stay.
On the way, they took in the sights, everyone had wings on their back, some also floated around on ball shaped clouds with a rotor device attached on it's rear.
Passing by the plaza, they saw three round-shaped men, expertly twirling around animals made out of cloud balls, entertaining and selling them to children.
During the day, Messengers went to every village and every city with a message. Everyone had a received the same message.
"Gather at the base of the Giant Jack and it's artificial Cloud islands tomorrow." was this message, coming God Enel himself.
Everyone was anticipating whatever God Enel had planned, it was an open secret at this point that the 'Something' had been in the making for more than a year, a plan that he had the idea of after seeing the prototype that Birka used to move their island closer to Skypiea.
He watched with his Haki, as he privately called it, people slowly gather, some coming on foot, other using the Milky Ways or even flying using cloud dials.
He had never thought, when he woke up as Enel all those years ago, that he'd be here, he imagined him simply living his life normally, not attracting attention and definitely not turning into a Ego filled psycho calling himself a "God".
Then he went and ate the Goro Goro No Mi like an idiot.
He hadn't meant to do it, one second he was grabbing an Apple, absentmindedly taking a bite of it while reading a book, like he did every day for years, the next he was coughing and gagging as the most foul thing he'd ever had the displeasure of tasting slid down his throat.
Though the taste was the furthest thing in his mind as his head exploded in pain, as his Haki's range multiplied by a hundred time.
After that, the kind Elders of Birka helped him reach the only people they knew of being proficient enough, that is God's Gan Fall militia.
The Kindness of the Divine Squad Leader, Moyle as he helped him control his Haki, their members who accepted and taught him how to fight, God Gan Fall himself who, despite saying the contrary, always made sure to take a detour to his office to come check on him every morning.
He decided that he'd use his talents and powers to defend all of them, even if it killed him.
And now here he is, the "God" of Skypiea, one that everyone looks up to and respects.
Fate works in mysterious way, he thought.
The last voices of the people arrived and he took a breath, before getting up and using his Devil Fruit's ability to travel out of his temple and appear in a bolt of lightning on the highest point, the Giant Jack's tip.
He gathered his powers once more and projected his face in the evening sky, everyone looked up, and he spoke.
"People of Skypiea, Shandia and Birka, I thank you all for coming here on this day." He started his little speech, "A year ago, I approached the people of Birka with a project, I asked them if it would be possible, they drew plans, made calculations and told me that yes, it was."
"We made small tests, first with the Island of Birka itself, then we did it with the small cloud islands you are standing on. You may ask yourself what this plan was? I could tell you, but I think it would be better if I showed you." His face disappeared, he grabbed a small golden rod that was planted at the top and discharged lightning in it.
A rumble was heard, the ground below them shook lightly and everyone watched as a massive bolt of thunder flew from the top of the Giant Jack and into the clouds, before bolts of lightning hit 12 different spots at the edge of the cardinal directions of each islands.
Where they hit, the ground parted, revealing massive pillars of intrinsic golden machinery, the pillars leaned outwards and into the cloud sea.
The gears started turning slowly and out came walls that extended, forming a massive circle around Skypiea and it's floating islands.
Along the walls, massive rotors started appearing.
Giant bubbles slowly formed below every islands, the smaller ones also having rotors and a wall encircling them.
Everyone was in awe at the sight, before a shout was heard.
"Look at the cloud sea, we're going higher!" The Shout came from one of the highest artificial islands.
And indeed, every single island started floating higher, elevating above the sea of clouds that everyone grew accustomed to.
"THIS!" Enel shouted, grabbing the attention of everyone, "Is the ultimate creation of the people of Skypiea!"
"From the knowledge of Birka, to the mechanics of Skypiea and let's not forget the Shandorian and their creative use of Dials, this is the culmination of the effort that everyone pulled together to create a way for Skypiea to move!"
"THIS IS THE HERALD!" Enel Finished, shouting to the sky as islands started floating above the cloud sea, he made lightning strike the pillars again, and they started moving.
"You may ask yourself, where are we going?" he said more quietly, sitting down at the top of Giant Jack, facing north.
He leaned forward, "We are going to repair an injustice that was caused almost 400 years ago, one that all of us here, who know the truth agree that needs correcting."
"We are going to clear the name of Mont Blanc Noland." He breathed resolutely.
So, while going through EVERY wiki page about the people and locations of Skypiea, I came across the one of an old man named "Haredas", the guy who helped Nami during the 2 years time-skip learn about manipulating the weather even more than she already did and all.
Haredas came from Birka, and at the time I didn't thought much of it beside "huh, that's interesting." and put it in a corner of my mind.
Then while I was scratching my head on how to explain what I am going to now call the Sky Union from now on (Which is Skypiea, Upper Yard and Birka + Whatever island I decide to add for the shit and giggles) I remembered that fact and ran away with the idea that if he came from Birka, then other people there must have some knowledge on how to recreate Weatheria.
And now we have this, The Herald (Thanks JT, a buddy on Discord for the name of the System AND the Sky Union!)
If you've got questions, feel free to ask them, I probably won't have a good answer but I'll have one.