Chapter 178: Mass Destruction

Eneru found the room where the sabotage happened. The gears were out of place. He pushed the gear back into place while grumbling over his lost powers.

"It's a shame that she's so young." Thought Eneru, "She could have been the perfect companion."

Since he had enough jet dials to power the ship until he had his powers back he decided to wait.

Below the ship, the group that jumped off fell to the ground… well cloud.

"At least we had this landing." Sighed Isaribi.

"Sanji are you okay?" asked Ino.

"Here." Said Anko picking him up, "I'll carry him."

That was when they saw Hinata and Nami.

"Let's go to the beanstalk." Said Nami.

"Why?" asked Kiba.

"Because when I was in the ruins I saw it." Explained Nami.

"The ruins?" asked Isaribi.

"Wait you mean the city of gold is real?" asked Ino.

"Yeah, but Eneru took all of the gold." Explained Nami.

"Are you sure that safe?" asked Usopp.

"Considering Eneru plans to destroy the island nowhere is safe." Said Nami.

The others nodded in agreement and headed towards the beanstalk.

Down below Luffy was running towards the beanstalk.

"Hey! Where're you're going?" asked Naruto.

"I'm going up to ring the giant bell." Said Luffy.

"You know where it is?" asked Naruto.

"I do." Said Luffy.

That was when Naruto went into half demon mode and used his tails to carry the golden ball that was attached to Luffy's arm.

"Where is everyone?" asked Aisa.

They noticed that the ones that were there earlier were gone.

"Oh Gaara probably brought them up to the surface." Said Naruto with a shrug.

"You're right, they are up there." Said Aisa.

That was when Naruto saw her shivering and shacking.

"What's wrong?" asked Naruto.

"Skypiea is going to disappear." She suddenly cried.

Above them, Robin who was now well enough to be standing looked up along with Gaara. They looked at Eneru's flying ship.

"I hope that none of them are on that ship." Said Robin.

Before Gaara could say anything, Pierre flew up and landed next to him, with a still trembling Aisa on his back.

"Hey can you take care of her?" asked Luffy as he ran up the beanstalk.

"What's with the ball?" asked Gaara.

"It's complicated." Said Naruto still helping Luffy carry the ball.

"That's a good answer." Said Kyubi sarcastically.

The three humans and one bird watched them climb.

"Where's Nami?" asked Gaara.

"Well…" said Aisa, but then she didn't sense Nami on Eneru's ship.

"I don't know." Said Aisa.

"Hey!" they heard Anko call out.

They turned to the see the large group that rescue Nami.

That's when Anko saw something.

"You know… you could have taken a peek." Said Anko.

She walked over to the unconscious Kakashi. She leaned over and was about to grab his mask when Kakashi woke up.

"What happened?" asked Kakashi, he then looked at Anko, "Anko...what are you doing?" he asked.

"Why did you have to wake up now?" muttered Anko.

"Okay… that answers my question." Said Kakashi.

They looked at the other unconscious bodies.

"So they were all beaten?" asked Kiba.

"Yes." Said Gaara.

"Where are Naruto and Luffy?" asked Isaribi.

Gaara simply pointed up.

"They ran up the beanstalk." Explained Robin.

"Okay, I'll follow them on the Waver and you guys head to the Going Merry." Said Nami.

"Hey… guys." Said Ino checking a watch, "It's been about five minutes."

Those who were on the Maxim paled.

"What does that mean?" asked Kakashi.

"Eneru has his powers back." Whispered Hinata.

And indeed he did.

After everything became completely calm, giant lightning bolts descended from the sky, decoying everything in their path.

One of them happened to hit about 50 feet away from them, causing the cloud they sat on to shake.

"At least it didn't hit here." Said Ino.

"Okay everyone! I'm going to follow the two. Everyone else get back to the ship!" said Nami taking charge.

That was when Sakura, Zoro, Gan Fall and Wyper all woke up.

"What's going on?" asked Sakura.

"Good you guys can walk right! Because we have to get out of here!" yelled Usopp.

Wyper looked at the destruction going on, he could help but to think of a story the village's elder once told him.

The true story of Noland the liar. That he and Calgara his ancestor had a friendship. An uneasy friendship, but still a great one. When Noland returned to his home he found the city gone and the king who was a greedy bastard put in a fake crew member that testified against Noland. While an equally greedy god when Shandora was sent to the sky forced the natives from their city, where Calgara fought to the death.

And fortunately that flashback didn't take several chapters to explained causing arc stall.

Nami had already gone up while Wyper reflected on it.

"Wyper we have to leave now!" cried Aisa.

"Eneru! What gives you the right to take everything away!" yelled Wyper.

"We should really get going!" said Sakura.

"She's right listen to the doctor in charge!" panicked Usopp.

They continued to watch the destruction around them. After a while, another lightning bolt hit near them.

"Why couldn't you have made it last longer?" asked Kiba.

"It's very difficult. Not even my father can make it last longer." Said Hinata.

"We don't have time for bickering! We really have to get back to the ship!" yelled Ino.

"Eneru is after the golden bell… I believe that's why none of us have moved yet." Said Gaara.

"Wait golden bell?" asked Wyper.

Gaara nodded, "Robin knows where it is." Said Gaara.

"It's on top of the bean stalk." Explained Robin, "The beanstalk grows though the center of the city, according to legends the bell and it's tower was in the center of the city. In other words, the bell must have entwined with the bell forcing it go higher and higher."

Meanwhile with Luffy and Naruto.

"So what's your plan bro?" asked Naruto.

"I'm going to ring that bell! And no one's going to stop me." Said Luffy.

Naruto heard sarcastic clapping in his head.

"How… how… are you able to do that?" asked Naruto.

"Do you want to find out?" asked Kyubi.

"Well not now… I'm sort of helping Luffy carry this giant gold ball" said Naruto.

"Oh… right…" said Kyubi.

That was when the two got up to the place that Eneru resided for the past few years.

"What is this place?" asked Luffy.

"I think this where he lived for the past few years." Said Kyubi, "Man… it's so pretentious."

Luffy looked up and saw the Ark.

"There you are!" yelled Luffy, "Naruto stay here!"

"Okay!" said Naruto.

Naruto watched as he watched Luffy run up the beanstalk, only for Eneru to destroy the top causing Luffy to fall, fortunately catching the beanstalk.

"You okay?" asked Naruto.

"I'm fine." Said Luffy.

"Need help?" asked Naruto.

"No, I got it." Said Luffy.

He managed to swing himself up to the cloud. But before Naruto could say any anything to him, Luffy was ran over by Nami on her waver.

"Hey Nami…" said Naruto with a sweat drop, not sure how to react to that.

"How did you get free?" asked Luffy.

"Oh sorry…" said Nami finding out she ran over Luffy, "Well… Sanji and the rest saved me."

"Oh, okay." Said Naruto with a shrug.

"That's great." Said Luffy.

That was when they saw a part of the cloud forming into a ball.

"That this is bad news, it's filled with air currents and sheet lighting." Said Nami.

The others below them watched at well, not sure what Eneru was planning… especially since it was directly over Angel Island.

Eneru gave a smile as he slammed it into Angel Island. There was a huge explosion of lighting and when it was done. All that was left of the island was a gaping hole in the sea cloud.

Next Time: The race to get to the Golden Bell beings. What will happen? And Nami comes up with a plan to get it... but will it work? Find out next time!