Chapter 157: The Island of God
Luffy decided to try the waver. He could not control it very and crashed.
"FAIL!" yelled Kyubi.
Naruto didn't respond because he couldn't help feeling the same way.
"This sea might be different, he might float." Said Sanji.
They saw him began to sink. Isaribi sighed and jumped into rescue him.
"Sorry… it's my fault for letting a novice do it." Said Pagaya.
"I guess they're very hard to drive." Said Kakashi.
"Yes, you have anticipate every wave, with practice someone will be able to handle in 10 years." Pagaya.
"I only recently learned how to handle it." Said Conis.
"Oh wow…" said Hinata.
"I'm not sure what that is… but I think you're wrong about 10 years." Said Anko pointing out at the sea.
She pointed out to sea where everyone was surprised Nami was riding it without any problems.
"That's amazing." Said Pagaya.
"You have to have a gentle touch, Luffy you were too rough." Said Nami.
"Why that…" muttered Luffy.
That was when Sakura grabbed him by the collar and drag him away.
"Let's go before you say something you regret." Said Sakura.
"Yes… Sakura…" said Luffy in somewhat scared tone.
"Hey! Can I stay out here a little longer!" called out Nami.
"Yes, of course." Said Pagaya.
And with Nami still on the waver, the rest of them went to go eat at Conis' house, along the way, they saw what was called a Cloud Quarry where they cut out clouds to use for whatever, Pagaya explained the difference between their clouds and normal clouds. That due to Sea Stone, particles made it so that water when formed into clouds would solidify differently.
"Of course…" said Naruto.
"That makes perfect sense." Said Luffy.
"Just call it science babble…" said Anko with a sweat drop, "Don't pretend you know what he's talking about."
"Translation: She doesn't understand it either." Said Kiba.
Anko glared at him… a glare that felt like if he would turn around something bad will happened to him.
"When will be safe to turn around?" asked Kiba.
Kakashi looked at her, "I will say you can look at her in about half an hour." Said Kakashi.
Pagaya even explained how that that strange river was artificial clouds.
They got to the house, where Sanji and Ino were helping Pagaya cook.
"What is this stuff?" asked Sanji, "I tasted it and it made my tongue go numb."
"Oh sorry, that's expired." Said Pagaya.
This made Ino sweat drop as Sanji got angry.
In the living room, the rest of the crew, were relaxing while Conis was showing them something.
"Usopp is an idiot." Luffy said into a shell.
"Luffy!" yelled Usopp.
"Now what do I do?" asked Luffy.
"Press the apex." Said Conis.
"The what?" asked Luffy.
"It's the top of the shell." Said Usopp.
Luffy pressed it and Luffy's voice came out of it, Usopp sweat dropped, while a rest of their crew was amazed or was laughing extremely hard.
"Oh man! That was funny!" laughed Kiba.
"No it's not!" yelled Usopp.
"That's a tone dial. It's a type of shellfish that records sounds." Explained Conis, "We use it to record music."
"If there's no sea bottom how do they live?" asked Isaribi.
"They live in the reefs in-between sand bars." Explained Conis.
"So what do they have to do with Wavers?" asked Kakashi.
"This is a Breath Dial." Said Conis showing up another dial which Luffy began to move around, "They store air and when pressed they propel the wavers."
"That's amazing." Said Hinata.
"There's even skates and boards, but I can barely handle a waver…" said Conis.
"Lunch is ready!" called out Sanji.
He brought out the food, as they ate, much of the crew were staring at Kakashi. Sanji would have been worried about Nami. But he still had his childhood obsession: Seeing Kakashi's face, Naruto, Anko and Luffy all stared as well.
"Why are they staring at him?" asked Conis.
"Kakashi is infamous for hiding his face, very few people know what it looks like." Sighed Ino.
Conis laughed at that.
Sakura was checking up on Nami and then got worried.
"Hey!" yelled Sakura, "I can't see Nami."
They got up and saw that she wasn't in site (Kakashi also took this time to eat).
"I hope she's all right." Said Conis.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Said Pagaya.
"Is something wrong?" asked Ino.
"You see there's a place that's forbidden to go to." Said Conis, "It borders the island so it's easy to get there."
"Did you say forbidden?" asked Luffy and Naruto.
Everyone sweat dropped as a good chunk of the crew thought one thing, "They're going to go there."
"Yes, God lives there." Said Conis.
"God?" asked Gaara.
"Yes." Said Conis.
"He's not a real god." Said Gaara.
"How would you know?" asked Zoro.
"If it was a real god, then Shukaku would sense it and be afraid." Said Gaara, "Shukaku is acting normally so I'm not worried."
"Just a quick question, but what is normal for him?" asked Robin.
"Demanding the blood of you, Naruto, Luffy, Zoro, Sakura, Sasuke, Hinata, Kakashi and Anko." Said Gaara.
"There's a reason why you don't talk much, isn't there?" asked Kiba.
"What is Shukaku?" asked Conis.
"Don't ask." Said Naruto, "It's better you don't know."
"You keep telling yourself that…" said Kyubi.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Naruto.
"I have no idea…" said Kyubi.
"He might not be an actual god but he does have powers." Said Conis.
"He must have Devil Fruit powers." Said Kakashi.
"That makes sense." Said Isaribi.
"Either way, we have to find Nami and make sure she's okay." Said Luffy.
"That's right." Said Naruto.
"She has to be saved." Said Anko.
"She wants to go too…" thought the crew with sweat drops.
With Nami she did manage to get to the forbidden island, she didn't step foot on it, but she did witness the horrors, a man was being attacked. The thing that shocked her the most was when a strange beam came from the sky and killed the man. Also the guerilla from earlier tried to attack but didn't get her.
She also heard something else, that there was a group of trespassers. A large group of trespassers, her group of trespassers.
She knew she had to go back.
Back at the beach, the crew knew they had to go find Nami, however Luffy had to get one thing done. Get their waver fixed.
"Come on Luffy! We have to go find Nami!" yelled Sakura.
"Yeah! Don't make me possess you!" yelled Ino.
That was when they saw a group of men in military uniforms walking towards them. Well crawling towards them would be more accurate.
"You know!" yelled Kiba from the ship, "That only work if you're trying to hide."
"Heso!" yelled the military as they got up.
"Stop saying that." Said Luffy.
They turned to ship, and yelled out, "You must be the 17 trespassers." Said the leader, Captain McKinley.
"Great… we're trespassers." Muttered Kiba.
"Don't worry. I think we can get out of this." Said Anko.
"Don't do anything too illegal." Said Kakashi.
"Shut up." Said Anko.
Anko walked over to the group known as the white barriers.
"What are you going to do?" asked one of the members.
"Are you sure you can't wave the fee?" asked Anko as she took off her jacket, revealing her fishnet shirt.
"Ma'am… can… can you please put your jacket on?" asked Captain McKinley.
"So you're not going to wave it?" asked Anko.
"Sorry... sorry, but we have to follow are duty." Said Captain McKinley blushing at Anko's… ahem… choice of clothing.
"So I just gave a show for nothing?" asked Anko, "You better hope we don't fight."
"We will overlook it, if you pay 10 times the toll." Said Captain McKinley.
"So that's 10 Billion for each of us." Said Robin.
"17 Billion all together." Said Isaribi.
"How much is that in Berries?" asked Anko.
"There's 1,000 Extol for a berry." Explained Captain McKinley.
"That's 170 Million." Said Sakura with a sigh, "If Nami shows up she's not going to be happy."
That was when captain McKinley noticed the broken down waver.
"That's ours." Said Luffy.
"How do you have it, Blue Sea people don't usually have wavers." Said Captain McKinley.
"We got it in a salvage from a sunken ship." Said Isaribi joining the conversation, "You see if it was stolen, it was stolen 200 years ago. So unless there's no statute of limitations, I doubt it would count as stolen property."
Captain McKinley sweat dropped when she said that, it did look old, and if was stolen 200 years ago… did it really count?
"Fine, we'll let you off on that one. Mostly because it's in a tricky grey area." Said Captain McKinley.
"Oh come on Isaribi." Said Luffy.
"Now's not the time." Muttered Isaribi, "We have to figure out what to do…"
That was when they saw Nami in the distance.
"Hey Nami!" yelled Sakura, "How much money do we have?"
"Why?" asked Nami.
"Because we need to pay them 170 million Berries!" yelled Sakura.
That was when Nami crashed the waver into Captain McKinley.
"Wow…" said Kyubi, "Of all people to screw things up for us, Nami was always one of the ones that was least likely to do so…"
Next Time: With the crew all together, they deicide (without Luffy's input) to leave. However, things don't end well as half the crew is taken to a sacrificial alter! It's up to the crew that weren't taken to save them! Also why does Conis seem suspicious? What's really going on? Find out next time!