SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 58 out, this is Chapter 59 of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors, myself included, sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Ace/Sasha, sibling Luffy/Sasha and Sabo/Sasha, patriotic-retainer Law/Sasha

Disclaimers: One Piece belongs to Oda Eiichirō-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC.

Chapter 59: Arc 6: Fending the Going Merry

"The damn Super-Express Lobster just deserted us here." Zoro snorted, the giant crustacean having deposited the Going Merry on the sacrificial alter.

"Where exactly are we?" Chopper wondered.

"What's for certain is that this is interior of Upper Yard." Nami confirmed.

"It's almost as if this is a sacrifice alter." Robin noted.

"It does look like one." Sasha agreed.

"Sasha, what is a sacrifice?" Chopper asked.

"It means you're being offered up to God while you're still alive." Sasha explained. "Whatever the method, your life is being given to God."

"Does that mean we are going to killed!" Chopper exclaimed and fell over the side of the ship in his panic.

"Geez!" Zoro snorted and jumped off to save their youngest crew member.

Robin materialized a pair of hands at the last rank of the stairs to stop Chopper from falling into the cloud sea.

"What is that?" Nami gaped when Zoro fought off the giant eel-like shark and giving Chopper the opening he needs to escape.

"A shark in the sky?" Robin mused. "A skyshark?"

After a while, Zoro resurfaced, after knocking out the skyshark with an Armament-Haki powered fist to its face. "This is bad." the swordsman returned to the ship. "Doesn't look like swimming outta here will do us any good."

"If swords don't work underwater, use your fists." Sasha joked.

"I thought you were a swordsman?" Nami mocked. "What happened to your so-called 'swordsman pride'?"

"There wasn't just one!" Chopper exclaimed when a shoal of skysharks appeared. "There's a whole swarm of skysharks!"

"We'll be here all night if we try to take on every single one." Zoro stated. "Can't even get to shore like this."

"Though we can't just sit here, either." Robin pointed out.

"That giant lobster brought us to one hell of a place." Zoro noted, wringing out the water from his shirt.

"Do you suppose starving us here is 'Heaven's Judgment'?" Robin wondered.

"Would God really do something that bland?" Zoro fired back as Nami tossed a blue singlet to him. "This is bad." he cast a look at the damaged hull. "We can't set sail with the hull like this. Try to fix the ship somehow, Sasha, Chopper."

"Fix it?" Nami echoed. "Are you planning to do something?"

"I'm gonna get into this forest somehow." Zoro pulled on the shirt. "We should probably make this our base of operations. I'm sure Luffy and the others are headed here in search for us. That vine looks usable." he spotted a dangling vine above him.

"You're right." Robin concurred. "Good idea. Mind if I join you, Mr. Swordsman?"

"Hold on!" Nami protested. "Where are you going, Robin?"

"Look at this." Robin turned to the engravings on the stone slab behind her. "At least a thousand years have passed since this alter was built. Historical things like this make my body tingle. Where there is great history, there should be just as many old relics. I'd wager even a few jewel fragments would help out our ship."

"I'm going too!" Nami declared.

"How's that?" Robin asked, using her ability to toss the vine to Zoro.

"Perfect." Zoro nodded, grabbing the vine, the trio were now gathered on the mast. Clearing his throat, he did his impersonation of Tarzan and swung over to the shore.

Robin and Nami followed him next.

"Anyway, we'll have to do what we can now." Sasha looked at Chopper. "I'll put up a barrier around Going Merry. Can I leave the hull to you, Chopper."

"Yes." Chopper nodded, taking the tool box. "I gotta do my best."

"Thank you." Sasha nodded, materializing her golden bident spear. "Ocean Blessing Dome!" the water dome shimmered into existence as it slowly spread over the Going Merry.

SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.