Hello Everyone and welcome back, now to Answer Guests Question: I've been pretty burned out from The Walking Dead but that doesn't mean I haven't given it up I just needed something else to occupy my writing instead of just The walking dead all the time, Plus Season 6's finale really pissed me off so much that it drew my interests away from the show for a while, And if the Season 7 premiere doesn't make up for that, yeah I'm gonna be done with it.
(Campsite)
To prepare for there trip to The City of Gold Sanji was preparing lunches and supplies along with a huge stew cooking in a huge pot for tonight, Luffy was in charge of looking over the water that is being distilled while Zoro, Cray, Chopper, and Robin went out into the woods to Gather more resources.
"This is so boring." Luffy said
"Stop complaining, your job is to collect the distilled the water that collects in the container into the canteens so that we'll have fresh drinking water for tommorow." Sanji said cutting up a sky fish for the stew.
Were back!" Chopper yelled with a filled basket with Zoro right behind him carrying things as well
"Good work what did you find? 'Sanji said
"Some walnuts, Aloe, bananas and Garlic." chopper said
"I got some rats and frogs." Zoro said holding them in hands
"Thats great! I'll clean them and put it in the stew." Sanji said
"HEY! don't start by putting disgusting things like that into it!" Nami yelled
"heh your right. how careless me." Sanji said smiling at her.
"Wheres Robin-chan?" Sanji said
"Cray, Ussop and Robin are still looking for things they should be back soon." Chopper said
Cray, Ussop and Robin then appeared Robin was carrying some kind of Large Crystal While Cray and Ussop were carrying a couple baskets
"Were back and look a what we got." Cray said carrying a small basket of coconuts along with Ussop
"Coconuts? Great find. that will make a really good alternative if we run out of water on the journey, but what happened to you guys? you look like you got into a fight." Sanji said
"Well." Cray said
"Well you see we came across and fought this Giant uhhhhhh...Snake, and we managed to lure it underneath this huge and tall coconut tree and to kill it we pummeled it with a bunch of well sized coconuts." Ussop said
"WOAH REALLY!? I wish I was there to see it!" Luffy yelled in excitement.
"Thats not what...you know what never mind." Cray said
(Small Flashback Cray and Ussop)
Cray and Ussop were standing by a tall tree, with some fruit growing on top of it
"Hey look this is a coconut tree." Cray said looking up seeing how tall it is
"I've never seen a coconut tree this tall and wide before." Ussop said
"I guess things that aren't naturally suppose to grow up here in the sky grow abnormally bigger I suppose." Cray said
"How are we suppose to get up there Its nearly 50 feet tall." Ussop said
"We don't have to...Iro Kick!" Cray yelled kicking his multi-colored foot into the tree as hard as he can shaking the entire tree.
"Great thinking now all we have to do is just wait for those coconuts to fall." Ussop said holding up the basket
As soon as he just said that, a coconut about the size of a beach ball crashed right next to them. catching them by surprise. with Ussop going big eyed
"Woah, they look way bigger up close." Cray said surprisingly
then suddenly within a split of a second coconuts small and big started to fall towards them.
Robin who was carrying a large brick of Salt, started to hear the commotion she decided to go investigate and as she got closer she noticed dozens of coconuts all around the area and in the middle of it was Cray and Ussop on the ground in pain.
"Are you two all right?" Robin said nonchalantly.
"Okay maybe kicking the tree wasn't such a good idea." Cray said
Flashback ended
"I'm just going to let this fib slide." Cray said to himself quietly not wanting to be embarrassed about what really happened.
"Well I got some work I need to start thinking of for the ship I'll be back later." Ussop said hauling up some wood.
"alright but don't be to long dinners is almost ready. "Sanji said
Robin what is that? A gem!?" Nami said in excitement looking at what Robin had
"not exactly." Robin said
Oh its a Salt Crystal Thats great find to Robin-chan." Sanjis aid
"I found it in the Lakeshore, I thought it would be useful." Robin said
"it sure would Salt is vital for survival in the Wilderness."Sanji said
"i'm going to be using half of these fruits and vegetable to make some medicine for the Sky Knight." Chopper said picking through his basket.
"Will Coconuts help." cray said
"Yes, The Milk will make a great nutritious drink for him while he recovers. also the meat will make for some good medecinal purposes." Chopper said going through the basket
"What about Frogs? "Zoro said
"No." Chopper said
"Hey Zoro I need your help for a second." Sanji said
Zoro was then told keep a Stone above the fire with two of his swords.
"you know my swords aren't meant to be used this way. "Zoro said annoyed
"Stop your whining, now put it into the stew." Sanji said
Zoro then released the rock an it sank to the bottom of the pot bubbling down as Sanji put the lid back on.
"why did you put a rock in it?" Luffy said
"its a cooking Stone the heat from it will cook the stew from the inside." Sanji said
"Oh I can't wait." Luffy said lifting up the lid
"Sanji then kicked him slightly on top of the head..
"Don't open it!" Sanji said
"Eh but I'm hungry." Luffy said
"You'll eat when its done, besides didn't you eat an entire skyshark earlier?" Sanji said
"Yeah but that was just to tide me over." Luffy said
"Like I said you'll eat when its done end of story." Sanji said
( a half an hour Later)
"all right! stew is Ready." Sanji said
"Yes Finally!" Luffy yelled running towards the Pot only for Sanji to stop him.
"the ladies get served first Luffy." Sanji said preparing some bowls for Nami and Robin, he even took the time to cut some Carrots into heart shapes as he was blushing while Chopper was passing down the bowls
"Make sure these are given to the right people." Sanji said blushing
"Okay." Chopper said grabbing the two bowls not realizing what he meant. Chopper then handed one of the bowls to Ussop and he started to eat it, and as he did he noticed the carrot heart shapes
"Oh heart shaped carrots, your really meticulous Sanji., " Ussop said
"Yes...I shaped those carrots just like that just for anybody." Sanji said in anger and frustration
"Well I got to say Sanji you sure know how to put some "heart" into the food you cook." Cray said eating the stew with the other heart shaped carrots.
Sanji then pounded the ground in frustration.
As everyone was eating Nami wanted to go through some plans.
"okay everyone We all know now that this part of Jaya and that it has been stuck up here in the sky for at least 400 years." Nami said
"do you think the Knock up Stream had something to do with it?" Chopper said
"Yes that is the only possibility I can think of. Cricket did say that the knock up stream occurs in many different places each time." Nami said
"I can see an island being shot up in the sky due to an explosion like that." Ussop said
"Its kind of hard to believe that this is the lost part of Jaya? Nothing grew this big there." Zoro said looking up at the tall trees
"I thought the same thing to when me and Ussop saw a huge Coconut tree that was 50 feet tall." Cray said
"Its probably due to the composition of the sea and island clouds, it appears the environment around the sky island, allows plants and animals to develop unusually very quickly, that also explains the civilization that was swallowed up by this forest." Robin said
"its surprising! The group Of south Birds that saved us at the lake were huge." Chopper said
" But why did they help save you in the first place?" Sanji said
"I don't know, but many of them called the Sky Knight "God". Chopper said
Everyone was takken by surprise.
"So your saying he's God!? does that mean we should beat him up!?" Luffy yelled
"OF COURSE NOT YOU STUPID LOUDMOUTH!" Ussop yelled
"anyways, remember what Nolands Log said about the City of Gold?" Nami said
" I recall it saying something about a Golden Bell and that there were South Birds." Sanji said
"There was also an incomprehensible line on the last page just before he died that said that he saw gold in the skulls right eye." Robin said
"Thats it! Everyone take a look at this." Nami said taking out the old map of Skypeia and the current map of Jaya.
"I took the map of Jaya and the old map of Skypeia, look at what happens when I put the locations of the beach houses together, this is how Jaya looked like 400 years ago" Nami said putting the two maps together.
"Woah Cool the entire map is shaped like a skull." Luffy said
"Way to go Nami-san." Sanji said
"So when Noland meant the "Skulls Right Eye" he was actually talking about the shape of the entire island?" Cray said
"Correct, but only half of it is left now down below us, so nobody could've solved the mystery but now that we know where exactly where to go thanks to these maps, we can just head straight to that spot, We can't leave the boat though so we may need to split into two teams tomorrow...theirs no doubt about it theirs an enormous amount of gold waiting for us here." Nami said
"So we start Tomorrow Morning?" cray said
"Thats the plan." Nami said
Robin then looked on how late its getting.
"Its getting late we need to put out any unnecessary fires, they'll only reveal our location to the enemy" robin said
Luffy and Ussop then looked at her in confusion.
"did you hear that Ussop? she wants to put out the fire." Luffy said
"its not her fault she doesn't know." Ussop said
What do you mean?" robin said
"Your always suppose to have a campfire!" Luffy said
"the desire to have a campfire when camping at night!" Ussop said
"Your both stupid, you know how dangerous this forest is there are priests and Guerrillas roaming everywhere we'll give our position away! and even without them forest at night re dangerous anyways there could be wild animals and monsters out there as well!" Nami said
"HEY LUFFY IS THIS WOODPILE GOOD ENOUGH!" Zoro yelled
They all looked and saw that Sanji and Zoro built a Bonfire for the night.
"You two are serious about this to?!" Nami yelled
"Its okay Nami-san wild animals are afraid of fires. "Sanjis aid holding up a torch ready to lit
"Ugh Sanji there are some weird bright eyes right behind you." Cray said
All of them looked and noticed that the glowing were coming from a group of wolves. the wolves then started to come towards the crew, one of the wolves which had scar across one of its eyes came forward.
"I assume this ones the Alpha." Zoro said
The Alpha then started to bark towards them
"Hey Chopper what is he saying?" Luffy said
Chopper walked a bit closer and then started to translate what the wolf was saying.
"You outsiders are being to damn loud! go to bed you dumbasses!" Chopper translated
SAY WHAT!?" Sanji and Luffy yelled
The Wolf continued on.
"Don't tell me you bastards are thinking about trashing our turf" No we were brought here against our will. "Chopper said back
"This is our land who said you jerks could cook here!? this forest is ours the trees the grass everything!" Chopper translated
Nami then Punched the Wolf as hard as she can leaving a huge bump on him.
"I won;t let you have my treasure!" Nami yelled
The Other wolves then started to growl aggressively at them.
"I think you shouldn't have done that?" Cray said
"Oh crap what are we going to do now?" Ussop said kind of scared
Cray, Zoro, Sanji and Luffy were stood there ground ready to fight, that was until the Alpha got up and told the pack to back off.
"Forget it guys you ain;t no match for them even with our numbers. Girl you pack quite a mean punch, I like ya." Chopper translated.
Alpha then Smirked at Nami to which Nami smirked back.
"Well that worked out fast?" Ussop said
"Alright then lets all have a campfire together!" Luffy yelled in excitement
(Later that Night)
After setting up the Bonfire, All of the wolves along with, Luffy, Ussop, Chopper and Sanji were dancing around it along with the wolves. Ussop was playing a large Bongo while Luffy was howling and dancing with the wolves Nami was trying a new drink made by the wolves. While Zoro was drinking with the Alpha Wolf.
"Lets keep this party Going!" Ussop yelled in excitement
Robin Zoro and Cray were on the sidelines just watching Robin reading one ofe her books While Cray was Drawing. Robin took a look at him and noticed him having one pencil in his mouth while he was pointing an aiming with another one.
"What are you doing?" Robin said curiously.
Oh just capturing the festivity in front of us that's all." Cray said twirling the pencil around in his hand.
"Can I see what you got so far?" Robin said
"Sorry but an artist doesn't reveal his work until it is fully complete." Cray said
"Some artists do. "Robin said
"Well not me, Sorry but your going to have to wait till its done before you can see it." Cray said with his face in the sketchbook
Robin just gave Cray a cheerful smile.
"Alright then, I guess I will hopefully it will be worth the wait." Robin said
Cray was caught off guard by the statement, he then had a slight smile on his face as well.
"Don;t worry it will be." Cray said cheerfully and confidently
"They even tamed the cloud wolves "hehe" no one in enerus land would throw such a huge party."
Both of them turned and saw The Sky Knight walking towards them.
"Sky Knight, your awake, how are you feeling?" Cray said
"I am fine...I apologize for trying to help but only causing more trouble instead." Sky Knight said
"What are you talking about? you helped alot, I heard you saved Chopper and our ship." Zoro said nearby
"It was nothing." the Sky knight said sitting down.
"Would you like some Stew?" Robin said
"No I thank you but I can't but I'm afraid i can't right now." Sky Knight said
"Then how about some coconut milk, Chopper said that it would help you recuperate better?" Cray said
"I think I could have that." Sky knight said
""Okay I'll be right back to get some for you." Cray said walking off
"HEY OLD MAN YOUR UP! THANKS FOR THE HELP EARLIER! DO YOU WANNA DANCE WITH US!?" Luffy yelled
"hey how is Conis-chan is she all right?" Sanji said
"Yes her and her Father are at my house. so you don;t need to fear." the Sky knight said
" Thank goodness I was beginning to worry." Sanji said
" thats great! there both safe, Come on everyone lets toss Chopper into the air." Ussop yelled
Luffy, Sanji and Ussop both launched Chopper into the air as he was cheering.
The Sky Knight was just staring at them and how all of them were having having no worry, it put a slight smile on his face, although no one could see it.
After the Party settled down and the bonfire stopped, everyone thought it was time to go to sleep to prepare for the big day. Cray was sleeping on his back with his sketch book covering his face.
"Pssst Cray...Cray" Ussop whispered
Cray slowly lifted up his sketchbook from his face but only slightly so he could see Ussop.
"Ugh, what is it Ussop I'm trying to sleep." Cray said with a grunt
"Listen I got to go to the bathroom and I need someone to have my back, Zoro said no so I was hoping you can do it?" Ussop said
"Oh come on man? you really can't find a place to go to the bathroom on your own?" Cray complained
"Please Cray, you know how dangerous forests can be at night when your by yourself." Ussop pleading.
"Ugggggghhhhh, okay fine." cray said getting up in a sitting position rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
"Thank you." Ussop said
As Ussop was going to the bathroom behind the tree Cray was standing in front, kind of annoyed and disgusted hearing the sound of peeing and pooping.
"Are you almost done Ussop?" Cray said
"Yes." Ussop said
Suddenly the noises stopped and Ussop came from behind the tree satisfied.
"Thanks Cray." Ussop said appreciated.
"Great I'm glad that that I helped your bowels get emptied now can I please go back to sleep." Cray said
"bang bang bang"
"Hey Cray do you hear that?" Ussop said
"Hear what?" Cray said
bang bang
"That. what is that? it sounds like banging wood" Ussop said
"who knows it might be a bird just pecking a tree or something who cares." Cray said continuing to walk
"I don't know about that...the noise seems to be coming in the direction of where our ship is, we should check it ou...Cray?...Cray?" Ussop said
As Ussop was talking Cray was already long gone.
"Fine I'll take a look by myself." Ussop said walking towards the noise.
As Ussop got closer to the Lake shore he noticed the sound was coming from The Going Merry on Top of the sacrificial Altar
"that's strange there shouldn't be anyone on the ship...its hard to see with all this fog. " Ussop said walking a bit closer.
And as he got a good he noticed a strange ghostly hooded figure hammering the Going Merry. Ussop then went wide eyed as the figure turned towards him.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Ussop screamed.
Cray and Zoro heard the scream and they Noticed Ussop on the Ground nearly fainting.
"what the hecks wrong with him?" Zoro said
"I don't know, I was just heading back to camp after helping him until I heard him screaming I came here as soon as I can." Cray said
"gh...ghost...ghost." Ussop staggered with his words.
"Will you quit dreaming Ussop!?" Zoro yelled
"ghost...gh." Ussop said
"Ugh, someones gonna have to carry him back to Camp. "Cray said
"Yep." Zoro said
Cray then just looked at Zoro seeing he wasn't planning on moving.
"Fine." Cray said hurling Ussop over his Shoulder.
(Gods shrine outside of the gate)
The Four remaining priest were in front of Gods throne Waiting for him to appear.
"We are...mmmmmm." Gedastu the priest of Ordeal of Swamp mumbled biting down on his lower lip
"You know its hard to talk while biting your lower lip." Ohm the priest of Ordeal of Iron said
"how careless of me. " Gedatsu said
"I'm telling you three Eneru summoned us because you let Wiper go." Shura the Priest of Ordeal of Strings said
"You should've killed him when you had the chance Ohm, save us the trouble of one of us doing it" Nanto said juggling a couple dials in one of his hands.
" Theres no need to to get worked up. however many struggle, the Shandians cannot escape us, such is their fate" Ohm said
"Thats nothing but excuses." Shura said
Nanto then stopped juggling.
"Do you know how many Dials I had to waste having to deal with those shandian scum? If you have taken him out the Shandians would have retreated you imbecile!" Nanto yelled in Frustration.
"You watch your mouth, you hermit." Ohm said in a threatening tone.
"If only have God eneru left it all to me from the very start everything would've been taken care of today. And his mood wouldn't have been spoiled" Gedatsu said
"Ha I find that unlikely, especially for a fool like you." Shura said
"What!?" Gedastu yelled
"I'll warn you three now. know your place, or else you'll lose control of your Mantra and end up like Satori." Ohm said
"Is that suppose to be a threat? Lets not forget the one who supplied you, correction "all" of you with those Precious Dials that you all possess which I was instructed to do in the first place from Eneru, without them you would be nothing but Crap underneath my boots. and that includes you Shura and you to Gedatsu" Nanto said
That struck a nerve in Ohm and he slowly drew out his Eisen Whip
"I warned you to watch your mouth." Ohm said
"I think I had enough with both of your mouth's." Shura said taking out his lance
"Don't get all haughty cause you took down Gan Fall." Ohm said
"Amusing." Gedatsu said going in a fighting stance.
The four of them then launched at each other fighting. and as soon as the gatedoors opened the fighting continued inside. and large man and commander of Enerus Divine soldiers by the Name of Yama was standing by looking at the fight.
"What are you four doing!? you're so hopeless." Yama said
"Quiet! its only because these guys drag me down that i can't use my powers to their fullest. I would fare much better if you let me handle the entire island alone!" Shura said
"Thats some mighty big talk! I'll just show you how "Skilled " you really are!" Ohm said
That is Enough all of you! you are in gods presents!" yama said
"Presence!? I don't see him anywhere!" Shura said
"I though he called us here!" Ohm said
"Where is Eneru?" Gedatsu said
Nanto then quickly went inside his large Shell.
"Nanto What are you doing!?" Shura said
Then out of nowhere a huge bolt of lightning struck all four of them.
"GOT YOU!"
All four of them then started to painfully roll away while the lighting bolt struck them. a man then formed out of the lightning and quickly cartwheeled himself back onto his throne, he was a tall, muscular man wearing a white bandanna, along with gold bracelets on both his arms and legs, and two little gold rings around his bigger toes., his earlobes that diamond shaped gold earring were stretched down to his chest, he was wearing orange pants with a black pattern on them, and around his waist a blue, flowing sash. He also had four large Tomoe drums attached to a large ring pierced on his back.
"You all need to train some more your all still to weak, surely you don;t want to end up pathetic as Satori?" Eneru said
"You called us all here just to say that!?" Shura said
"i was bored...have a seat." Eneru said taking an apple
All four of them sat down as Eneru spoke
"you all don;t seem to have taken much notice of those Blue Sea people." Eneru said
"If your referring to Satori he was inexperienced." Ohm said
"Yeah with his lousy Ordeal of Spheres." Shura said
"As I said your still to weak Shura...Gan Fall is still alive." Eneru said
"Impossible I finished him off myself!" Shura said
"So you say." Nanto said
"What was that!?" Shura said
"enough Shura, Nanto...he is not in tip top shape, but he seems to be friends with the Blue Sea people for some reason." Eneru said
"What exactly are the Blue Sea People after?" Shura said
"There after gold."Eeru said taking a bite of his apple
"Gold?" Gedatsu said
"How would they know about that?" Ohm said
"This Island use to be part of the Blue Sea, its not strange for blue sea people to know about it, naturally they will make there move tomorrow and the Shandians will attack again, the rules that you each run an area of Upper Yard but your not allowed to intefere with one another, tomorrow I will let you enter all areas, you can set up your ordeals where ever you like, you can also ignore the rules and go as wild as you want." Eneru said
"If I may ask Eneru why the sudden change?" Nanto said
"Because I've almost completed the Maxim...So lets all put an end to this island and set forth for the world of dreams." Eneru said taking another bite out of his apple.
(The Next Day)
Back at Luffys Camp everybody was awake to prepare for the Gold hunting but as they did they noticed something peculiar..The Going Merry was entirely repaired.
"Do you guys See this I knew I wasn't dreaming someone was here!" Ussop yelled in excitement.
All of them were equally surprised as well
"This is incredible the Mast was torn clean off and now its all fixed!" Nami said
"There was someone here I saw him!" Ussop said to himself
"Who would go through all this trouble to fix our ship? I thought everyone here hate us?" Cray said
"Also the Going merry isn't in its flying Model anymore." Luffy said
"yeah your right, how did the person know what the merry originally looked like? "Ussop said
"The more better Question why does it matter?" Nami said
What aren't you at least a bit curious to who did this?" Chopper said
"Of course I am but we got more important things to worry about, like the treasure hunt or how are we going to get Merry back into the sea while its up here?" Nami said
"hmmmm yeah you right, how are we going to Get the Merry down from here?" Chopper said
"I think I have an idea? And I might need your help Chopper." Ussop said
"All right Ussop? What is is that you need me to do?" Chopper said with confidence
(The Crow)
Ussop was driving the Crow around the sacrificial Altar while Chopper was dangling off a rope.
"Ussop don't tell me I'm being used.."Chopper said dangling
"Skysharks are gonna try to bite you so be careful. "Ussop said
"I'm bait!? NO! NO! I DON'T WANT TO BE EATEN!" Chopper yelled flaying around
In but a fraction of a second a huge skyshark popped out of the sea ready to snap at chopper
"AAHHHHHH!" Chopper yelled
"Sanji Now!" Ussop yelled speeding away before Chopper could get hurt.
"Sanji then kicked a large Grappling hook that was attached to the Going Merry through the Sky sharks Fin. The Skyshark roared in pain while it dived back into the water while also nudging the ship over towards the steps of the Altar.
"Just a little more. "Ussop said
The Going Merry was completely turned forward and as it was going down the Stairs Zoro cut the rope attached to the ship, the Going Merry was now back onto Sea.
"YES! WAY TO GO YOU TWO!" Nami yelled in excitement
...
as everyone was on the ship Nami was now constructing the plan
"Now then heres the map... the Search team will go this way, straight South, This "Right eye" should have some ruins sow atch out for enemies that and bring soome gold back. "Nami said
"You make it sound simple."Zoro said
"What? your not coming us Nami?" cray said
" No way its scary." Nami said
"So you want the Gold but without any danger coming your way? your so Weird Nami." Chopper said
"Are you saying something?" Nami said in a aggressive tone.
Chopper then Quickly shook his head no.
"Meanwhile the rest of us we'll leave island on the Merry and we'll head for the beach ruins area as fast as possible. Thats where we'll pick you guys up and we'll all get the hell out of here. Then we'll all be very rich pirates we can buy whatever we want! Now is everybody ready!?" Nami said in excitement
"HAHA YOU BETCHA!" Luffy yelled
"Alright lets get going!" Cray yelled
"Okay let all meet safely on the eastern shore!" Zoro said
The team that consist of Chopper, Cray, Robin, Zoro and Luffy went off to shore to find the city while, Sanji, Ussop, Nami The Sky Knight and his trusty steed were on the Merry sailing. And so began the Journey to the Lost City of Gold.