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Bold is for attacks

Steve's POV

There was a real live angle playing a harp not too far from our spot on the beach. She looked over towards our group and smiled.

"Heso. Are you Blue sea people?"

"We flew up from the bottom." Luffy explained as the girl helped him cut open a pumpkin shaped fruit.

"I'm Conis." The girl said introducing herself "If you need anything just ask."

Before Nami could ask the girl any of her questions we were interrupted by Conis' dad riding a 'Waver'. The man flew past on the strange machine and slammed into a tree.

"That machine looks like the thing we fished out of the shipwreck." I said.

"And it matches the description from Noland's Logbook." Robin added.

Conis' father introduced himself as Pagaya. They invited us to their home to eat. Before we went up Nami asked them how the Waver worked. Luffy tried to take the Waver for a ride but crashed once he got out over the water.

"I wonder what will happen to Luffy in the sea of clouds." I wondered aloud.

Luffy started sinking and flailing around screaming for help. I swam over and fished him out swimming us back to shore. By the time I got back to shore Nami had already perfected how to operate the Waver. Nami decided to stay and mess around on the Waver, while the rest of us went to Conis' house to eat.

Along the way Pagaya explained how they were able to have buildings erected and live atop the clouds "There are two natural types of cloud. 'Sea cloud' and 'Island cloud', we harvest the island cloud to use it to build and live on."

He also said the clouds have similar molecules to the Seastone that weakens Devil Fruit users. Which is why Luffy lost his strenght. When we got inside Sanji went to help Pagaya with the food while Conis taught us about these things called 'dials'. She explained that the dials were just corpses of ancient sea creatures that had the ability to do many things. We saw a tone dial which could repeat sound, wind-dials which could blow out wind, and light dials which held…well light.

"These things are impressive. A ton of possibilities." I remarked.

"Dials are used for everything up here." Conis explained "In the right hands they become incredible works of art or in some cases even powerful tools or weapons."

Sanji and Pagaya brought out the food and we sat down to eat. Sanji waited to eat because he was busy looking for Nami, who Conis was worried had gone too far out on the Waver.

"Wadda mean?" Rose asked with a mouthful of food.

"Slob." I mumbled.

"Heard that!"

"There's a place no one in Skypiea is supposed to enter. Upper Yard, the place where God lives." Conis told us.

"So no one is supposed to go there?" Luffy asked with a glint in his eye.

"Yes! No one!" Conis affirmed.

"Don't even think about it! God lives there!" Usopp said shaking Luffy.

"Yeah no one should go there." Luffy said flapping his hand.

He's totally going.

"We don't know if Nami is even there. We shouldn't jump to conclusions." I told Luffy as he shoved more food in his mouth.

"You said you had a waver? I'd be willing to look at it for you." Pagaya told us.

"Really?" Luffy said.

Rose's POV

We headed back down to the beach so that Pagaya could take a look at the Waver we found in that shipwreck.

"Can you fix it?" Luffy asked the old man.

"I'm not sure I'll have to open it up." He explained.

There was a commotion coming from the stairway nearby. We turned our attention towards the noise. There was a group of men crawling along the ground in our direction.

"Halt~" the lead man yelled.

Conis and Pagaya greeted the man with the usual greeting from up here. Sanji wanted Luffy to ignore them so we could go get Nami.

"You! The Blue Sea people who have illegally entered Skypiea." The captain told us "Don't deny it we have this picture as proof."

The man held up a photo of us when we passed through that gate earlier.

"Yup that's us" I said.

"This must be a mistake Captain McKinley. These are good people." Pagaya said defending us.

"The situation isn't that serious, there is no need to panic." McKinley told the man "this is only a class eleven crime. This will go away if you just pay the fine. You'll become regular tourists."

"What's the fine?" Steve asked

"Ten billion Extol for each person. So nine people, 90,000,000,000." The captain explained

"What! How much is that in Beli?" Usopp asked.

"One Beli is equivalent to ten thousand Extol."

"So we owe seven million Beli." Robin explained after doing some quick mental math.

The man wanted to give us another fine because we owned the broken Waver. Nami had arrived back at the beach while we were fighting the fines.

"Nami do we have seven million Beli to pay a fine?" Usopp asked.

"That's way too expensive!" Nami yelled crashing into Captain McKinley.

Nami dragged Luffy and I back to the ship so we could leave and not anger 'God'. The captain who Nami crashed into said we were now class five criminals and were sentenced to a place called the drifting cloud. The enemies fired arrows which made clouds at us.

Is this that Dial weaponry Conis mentioned?

"Nami get on the ship." Luffy pushed Nami back as the arrows flew past.

The men soared past us riding on the clouds with strange skates. They attacked us with swords but Luffy and I dodged them.

"I see, you have cool shoes." I remarked.

"Knife Rain!" "Gum-Gum Firework!"

The others hopped off the ship to help Luffy and I. We realized that we could never pay that fine since we always have to spend the money on Luffy's food.

"You Blue-sea people should have just left. Now you are class two criminals! You fate is now up to the priest of Upper Yard!" The man and his troop walked off.

"Seems like we're already being chased." Steve remarked.

Nami wanted to leave right now but Luffy scolded her for missing the biggest adventure of her life. Nami asked Conis how we could get back down and she explained we had to go to a place called cloud end.

"Can I have the food from earlier?" Luffy begged.

Luffy, Steve, Sanji, and Usopp went back to Conis' house to get some things while the rest of us got the ship ready. Nami wanted to leave but Zoro told her there was no changing Luffy's mind so she should accept it but then the ship suddenly lurched and began moving on its own.

"Zoro did you lift the anchor?" I asked.

"No it's that thing!" He yelled pointing under the ship "Actually don't!"

When I peeked over the edge there was a giant shrimp like the one from earlier dragging the boat on its back.

"So it's started" Robin said quietly "Heaven's Judgment."

Steve's POV

I followed Luffy back to the house to make sure he didn't take too much food and eat Conis and her father out of house and home. Sanji put together some lunchboxes while Usopp was adding supplies to his toolbox.

I was outside looking out over the beach when something caught my eye, The Going Merry started moving on its own

Where are they going?

"Hey guys." I called out to the others in the house with me.

The others came over and saw what I did and began to panic like I had.

"There sailing backwards!" Luffy yelled.

"Look! Under the ship!" Usopp yelled out.

When we looked under the ship there was a large shrimp carrying the ship out to sea. Before long the ship was out of sight and we were the only ones left.

"They're gone."

"Where are they going?" Luffy asked.

"That shrimp transports sacrifices. I'm afraid you friends are headed to the sacrificial alter." Pagaya explained.

"Sacrifices!" Sanji yelled.

"There are two types of punishment, sacrifices and judgment. You friends are the sacrifices, so you four are the ones being judged." The old man explained.

Usopp pulled out the map and Pagaya showed us were we would have to go to rescue our friends. We were going to have to go in the front door because that's the only way in.

"So in order to get the crew and the ship back we have to play be their rules" Sanji wrapped it up.

"This is our trial, Heaven's Judgment." Usopp said trying to put on a brave face.

"We'll have to deal with those priests Nami told us about." Luffy said with a smile.

"Looks like you got your adventure after all Luffy." I said with a smile.

We changed our clothes into more comfortable combat attire and got ready to leave. I had ditched my usual outfit for a pair of plaid shorts and a green tee-shirt. I also added a blue bandana to my neck.

I look good if I do say so myself.

Conis led us through town down a road called Lovely Street, the main street of the island. Everyone in town gave us nasty looks and stopped talking when we walked past.

"They don't like us much." Usopp said.

"Probably because we're criminals." Sanji told him.

Luffy kept getting distracted and running off towards shops and I had to pull him back every time.

Another day of the usual.

"Focus Luffy we don't have time to fool around." I told him.

"Well we don't have to save them since Zoro and Rose are with them."

Zoro…And…Rose.

"We have to hurry!" I told him grabbing him by the collar and dragging him.

A little further up the street we passed by a statue.

"This is Vearth" Conis explained.

Whatever that idol was supposed to symbolize went over our head so Conis continued to lead us to the port. When we got there all you could see was boats.

"These are all powered by dials" Coins explained looking off in to the distance.

She's been like that since we left the house.

Conis showed us our boat, The Crow. It was a small tiny vessel barely capable of holding the four of us.

"That one's better." Luffy said looking at a much larger boat nearby.

Sanji made Luffy apologize for hurting Conis' feelings. Conis gave us the directions to get to Upper Yard so we could save our friends. She looked unusually nervous when doing it.

"Are you feeling alright Conis? You've been trembling since we left." I pointed out "Don't worry we can handle this no problem."

"The others are avoiding us but you brought us here and gave us a boat." Usopp added "Are you sure you won't get in trouble."

"You look kinda pale." Luffy said "We could have come alone if you were scared."

"I…It's not like that. Don't you find it strange, the details I gave you about the trial, leading you here?" She whispered.

The crowd began to mumble, telling her not to say stupid things.

Something's up.

"Can't you just run away?" she said falling to her knees "I'm sorry! It was me! I called the express shrimp! If we see a criminal we have to lead them to the execution ground."

Stupid girl.

"You idiot" Luffy told us "You had no choice, so why…"

"WHY'D YOU TELL US?!"

"You're going to get attacked now!" Luffy yelled at the girl.

The sky darkened and rumbled. The people in the streets began to run away screaming. Luffy grabbed Conis and tried to avoid what was coming but the attack was too large. A huge laser came from the clouds and annihilated Luffy and Conis.

"Luffy! Where are you?!" I yelled out hoping for a response.

"These two are safe."

The Sky Knight had saved Luffy and Conis just in time. He put Luffy back in the ground and told us he would look after Conis and her father.

"Let's go." Luffy said hopping into our small boat "To Upper Yard."

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