"Before you go there's just one thing." Florence said to the exploration group (Luffy, Robin, Chopper and Ussop) she was holding an old piece of paper in her hands.

"This is a map of the Pittore, you can take it with you on your exploration but don't go into Gallery town."

"Why?" Luffy asked.

"Well remember how I shot at you before? Well, there might be some other artists left living in gallery town and they might have an even worse attitude toward visitors than I did." Florence explained.

"Oh, it's ok" Luffy replied, "if any of them try to attack us I'll just beat them up!" Luffy said as he punched a fist into his other hand.

"Have some respect!" Nami yelled as she smacked Luffy on the back of the head. "Those people took care of Florence, so don't go there!"

"Fine" Luffy said as he rubbed the bump on his head, "alright we'll be back by nightfall, see ya!" With that Luffy's group set off to explore the island. Along the way they saw many amazing sights: chalk carvings that spanned entire mountain ranges, valleys that looked like they had been sculpted by Picasso, a lake filled with black ink yet covered in neon-colored plants so that it looked like an abstract painting; these were just a few of the sights Luffy's team saw.

Meanwhile Vino's ship had just come through the mural and was now heading to the dock at Gallery Town. "That clever little witch" Vino thought "no wonder we couldn't find this island. When I get her she'll pay!"

Luffy's group had finished collecting enough canvas when the sun started to droop down from the sky."Luffy" Ussop said "we had better start heading back; by the time we get back to Florence's place it will already be dark."

"It'll be fine, we've got plenty of time, besides didn't you say you wanted to go to the plaster swamp to so we could fill in any leaks in the Merry?" Luffy said with a grin.

"Yes, but that's on the other side of the mountain!" Ussop pointed to the Starry Night Mountain that looked over the plains.

"No problem; Robin, Chopper come over here!" Luffy shouted.

"So how are we gonna get to the swamp so fast?" Chopper asked.

"You'll see, just grab onto me and hold on tight." Luffy said giddily.

"I don't like where this is going" Ussop said as he joined the others in grabbing Luffy.

"Ok now GUM-GUM…" Luffy was now stretching his hand to grab at rocks that formed a gap in the mountain.

"I really don't like where this is going!" Ussop yelled.

"ROCKET!" Now Luffy, along with Chopper, Ussop and Robin, was flying through the air at a very fast speed. "

Luffy you IDIOT!" Ussop screamed.

"I don't wanna DIE!" Chopper yelled. Robin remained silent and kept calm, though she did wonder how she ended up in such a peculiar situation. However, it was that calm that allowed Robin to notice that they were still very high when they sailed past the swamp. "Captain I think we just passed the swamp."

"You see what your stupidity has done!" Ussop yelled.

"It'll be fine I'm sure we'll land some place fun." Luffy said without a hint of concern.

At Gallery Town Vino's boat had docked and he had already set off for Da Vinco's cabin. Now Levi and Lorenzo were disembarking the ship. "Ugh, this town is even worse than I remember." Levi said in disgust.

"Miss no one's been here for at least 20 years." Lorenzo replied.

"You're right" Levi said as she took a smoke from a cigarette which was held in a traditional cigarette holder "hmm, maybe there are a few pieces left in the galleries. Lorenzo, come on we're going to look from some art."

"Yes, Lady Levi" Lorenzo replied, he then noticed something in the sky flying towards the town very fast. "What is that?"

"Lorenzo! I don't have time for you to be staring off into space let's go!"

"Right away Miss." Lorenzo and Levi started walking off into the town.

"Luffy is that a house?" Ussop said as he saw they were very quickly approaching not just a house but a collection of them. "We're gonna crash! why me? I wanna live!" Ussop was now hysteric.

"We'll be fine, GUM-GUM BALLOON!" Luffy's body inflated to cushion the impact against the house, which still crumbled after the hit.

"I swear the stuff you do; one of these days you'll kill one of us." Ussop yelled as he brushed off the debris that covered both him and everyone else.

"I agree captain; you need to think ahead a little more." Robin calmly said.

"Well we're fine aren't we?" Luffy said, ignoring that Chopper had comically passed out from shock.

"Fine? I nearly died of a heart attack Chopper's passed out an…" Ussop suddenly froze "oh crap! Luffy do you know where we are!"

"Umm a town?"

"We're in Gallery Town, you know the place where people where people will shoot us!"

"It's fine bullets don't hurt me."

"They hurt the rest of us!"

"Stop complaining maybe the people here are willing to trade supplies." Luffy now started to walk toward the main town street. Just as he disappeared around a corner Chopper regained consciousness.

"Wait, Luffy, don't wander off please, this is scary!" Chopper said.

"Whoa!" came Luffy's voice from around the corner.

"I knew it! It's the artists out for revenge!" Ussop was now scared out of his wits.

"C'mon you two." Robin said as she produced extra hands to drag Ussop and Chopper. When they turned the corner they saw what Luffy was gaping at. It was the burnt out shell of a building, all that remained were a few blackened steel beams and some wooden floor boards that had turned to charcoal.

"What a weird sculpture." Luffy said.

"No, something's not right here look at the building next to it." Ussop pointed a finger at blackened sections of the building next to the shell. "It looks like this is where are large fire was stopped."

"Maybe there was a lightning storm and a fire started but the rain put it out." Luffy replied.

"That's not it" Robin replied "I remember reading that Pittore's climate is unique in that lightning can't form here, the only weather it gets is rain and snow, I'm sure Miss Navigator could explain it better than I could. However, what is really odd are the shops over there." Robin gestured toward shops across the street, which prominently displayed beautiful paintings in the window; more art pieces could be seen in the rest of the shops.

"Hmm something isn't adding up here, Florence said that after Da Vinco died the art market dried up here. Even if that was the case the artists should have had time to move their pieces off the island, so why leave them?" Ussop pondered.

Suddenly the entire group turned when they heard the sound of footsteps. "Something smells funny." Chopper said in a cautious voice.

"What have we here?" Levi said "Some stragglers, I thought you all left."

"Finally" Vino said as Da Vinco's cabin came into sight.

To be continued…