THE CHILDREN Set Sail!

Disclaimer: Credit for all information regarding both One Piece's characters and Zettai Karen Children's characters goes to their respective manga and anime sources. Extra credit goes to .com for providing me with any miscellaneous information to make this story possible.

We last left the Children and their Straw Hat Pirate comrades just after witnessing the impossible happening before their eyes. A huge galleon, eight times bigger than the Merry Go, had appeared out of nowhere and is now falling rapidly just a ways off from the Merry Go, nearly right on top of them.

"…A huge Galleon!?" Nami managed with widen eyes.

"…Falling from the sky!?" Luffy managed as well.

"…How-!?" Sanji managed just as the clearly damaged Galleon slammed onto the surface of ocean, causing massive waves, rocking the boat greatly.

"WAH~~!" The Children exclaimed in panicked as they try to retain their balance on the unstable ship.

"Everyone!" Zoro called, "Grab a hold of the Ship!"

"This can't be real~!" Nami exclaimed, comically holding onto the main mast of the ship, "How can a ship THAT big fall from the sky!?"

"That's what I like to know!" Shiho replied as she too held onto the main mast.

"…! You're right!" Usopp suddenly shouted, "It's a dream! This has got to be just a nightmare~~!"

"A nightmare!?" Chopper sighed in relief, "Oh~! What a relief-!"

"How can you two still be saying that!?" Aoi comically whacked the two upside the head, despite the situation.

"There's still more falling!" Sanji warned, "Be on guard everyone!"

"Quick!" Kaoru exclaimed, "We got to get Merry away from all of this!"

"We can't use the rudder with all these waves!" Zoro called, "We're counting on you to get us out of here, Kaoru!"

"Leave it to me!" Kaoru began to use her powers to direct the ship carefully out of the area, "…This could take a while~!"

"Luffy!" Sanji called, "Protect the ship! It can't take it anymore!"

"Got it!" Luffy grunted in acknowledgement before noticing Usopp in unusual seating position, "Huh? Usopp?"

"Don't worry~!" Usopp prayed, "Just pray like me, close your eyes and clear your mind of all unholy thought and trouble~! Then slowly open your eyes as you raise your head…" Usopp did as he instructed himself. "You see? It is a bright and sunny-!"

The first thing that came into Usopp eyes was the face of beaten and worn out skeleton.

"AAAHH~~~! It's a SKELETON~~~!"

"Wah-! Idiot!" Nami screeched in horror when the Usopp push the skeleton towards her, "Don't push THAT over here!"

"Don't send it to me next!" Aoi screeched in the same manner when Nami shoved the skeleton in her direction next.

"Someone keep these things off of me~!" Kaoru cried out with comical cries as debris relentlessly drizzled on her head.

"I got it!" Luffy called as he did his best to keep both Kaoru and the ship safe.

"More are still coming!" Shiho exclaimed as she did her best to avoid the falling debris.

"No more skeletons~~~!" Aoi cried out, teleporting away from any bone fragments that fell her way.

After several more minutes of fighting the waves while keeping the Merry Go from being rain to death by debris ranging from wooden planks to corpses, everything finally became peaceful again. The huge galleon wreckage litter the sea around them as it all slowly began to sink beneath the waves.

"Phew~!" Kaoru sighed in relief, having been focus on insuring the ship's safety with her powers, "We survive somehow~!"

"I'll say," Shiho grumbled as she navigate through the debris that had remain on the ship.

"So~," Aoi began, "Now that we have a moment… …What just happen!?"

"Yeah," Luffy awed, glancing ominously into the sky, making sure nothing more was going to show up, "Why did a ship fall from the air?"

"Too weird~!" Sanji commented.

"There's nothing up there either," Zoro frowned uncomfortably.

"Even with psychic powers," Kaoru noted, "It'll take at least fifteen of me to lift that kind of ship alone…"

"Not to mention high enough so that we couldn't notice it until the last minute," Aoi readjust her glasses.

"…! AAAHH~~~!" Nami suddenly cried out, staring at a device on her left hand, "How did this happen!?"

"What's wrong, Nami-san?" Sanji glance over, "…Is something wrong with the Log Pose?"

"Log Pose?" Kaoru and Aoi tilted their head at the unfamiliar word.

"It's the only type of compass that works in the Grand Line," Shiho informed, "It's a simple compass that points in the direction of an island. Nami told me about it. Other compasses don't work here…"

"Why?"

"According to Nami, each island has a strong magnetic field. A compass that points north will continuously spin because of that…" Shiho turn to Nami. "So what's wrong with the Log Pose, Nami?"

"…It's broken!" Nami informed as she show everyone the Log Pose, with the needle pointing straight up, "It's pointing up, not even moving around…!"

"…That's not right, Miss Navigator," Robin, who has been calm and silent the entire time, suddenly spoke, "The Log Pose has simply locked onto a strong magnetic field…"

"Huh?"

"For it to be pointing up," Robin suddenly turned her gaze upward, "it must have locked onto…Sky Island!"

"…!? S-Sky Island~~~!?" Everyone exclaimed.

The Children glance at each other in confusion. Sky Island? Judging by the name, it's supposedly an island in the sky. But is that possible? Even with Psychic powers, it should take over hundreds of Level 7 psychokinetic users to keep a separated city afloat…let alone an island, by calculation.

"What is that!?" Luffy exclaimed excitedly, "Can an island really float!?"

"Did that ship and skeleton really fall from such a place!?" Usopp awed.

"…But," Zoro grumbled, peering into the sky, "I don't see anything in the sky that looks remotely like an island…"

"That not exactly right either," Robin informed, "It's not just an island, but an entire sea…"

"An ENTIRE sea!?" Shiho and Aoi exclaimed in shock.

"That's even more confusing and bizarre," Sanji commented.

"Oh~~~!" Luffy, Kaoru, Usopp and Chopper awed in amazement.

"If there's an island and a sea up there!" Kaoru exclaimed, "It stands to reason that we can go there! Right?"

"Well-…" Robin began before Luffy excitedly pointed upward.

"Yosh~~~!" Luffy cheered, "I've decided~~~! We're going to Sky Island~~~! Point the ship's bow straight up~~~!"

"Full speed ahead~~~!" Usopp cheered.

"Upward we go~~~!" Kaoru cheered.

"… …Sigh," Robin sighed before sprouting hands to forcefully closed Kaoru, Usopp and Luffy's mouth.

"Uh," Sanji began, "Did it ever hit you three that…we can't do that?"

"Yeah," Shiho nodded, "It's impossible for a ship to go up Captain. Even if we had Kaoru getting us up, it's possible that its extremely high up! We can't see it, so it's at least Ten Thousand meters up. Carrying all of us AND the ship up there is impossible even for Kaoru…"

"To be honest," Robin suddenly began again, "I only know about Sky Island through stories, rumors and myth; supposedly, it's just a legend…"

"See," Aoi sighed, "We can't go to a place that doesn't exist outside the realm of fantasy…"

"That's right! It's impossible!" Nami exclaimed, "Floating islands and seas!? The Log Pose is just broken, that's all!"

"No, Miss Navigator," Robin spoke again, "You're trying to fix something that isn't even broken. What you should be doing is figuring out how to get up there…"

"…!?"

"No matter how many times you fall into a strange situation, whatever danger we find along the way, the only thing you can count on is the Log Pose. That is the single most important rule on the Grand Line. And the only thing that you should really doubt is what you perceive as common sense, because here in the Grand Line they don't usually exist. That Log Pose is pointing to an island; I bet my life on it…"

"…Even if you say that," Nami glance back at the Log Pose, "How do you know it not simple broke?"

"Uh, no offense, Nami," Shiho hummed as she too stared at the Log Pose, "But such a simple device isn't likely to be broken unless you destroy it, don't you think?"

"… …I suppose…" Nami frowned after some time.

"…? Hey," Aoi suddenly noted, "Where's Kaoru? And now that I think about, where are Usopp and Luffy?"

"…Good question," Zoro noted and scan around, "… … …Ah! Found them…"

"Huh?" Aoi glance in the direction Zoro indicated to see that the three missing people had made their way over to the still floating wreckages, "…What are those idiots doing?"

"Searching for clues, they said," Chopper informed, having been watch them.

"…I can't believe you just open that coffin," Shiho sweat dropped as she, Aoi, Nami and Chopper (kind of) hid behind the main mast.

Everyone on the ship observe as Robin had carefully pried open a coffin that had landed on the boat and began to reassemble the skull of the corpse inside.

"What you're doing is freaky!" Nami squealed.

"Dead Body and a pretty woman~," Sanji chuckled suggestively, "They go good with each other~!"

"Only in horror movies!" Aoi frowned.

Robin quietly continued working until she finally reassembled the entire skull.

"Wow!" Shiho awed, "She really put it back together!"

"Hmm~," Robin hummed as she inspects a series of holes on the skull, "These holes here are not natural…"

"So that means that guy died when someone bash his head?" Sanji guessed.

"No, it's from a surgery method known as Trepanation," Robin turn slightly to Chopper, "Isn't that right, Doctor?"

Chopper hesitantly inspected the holes before nodding. "Yeah, it was used to cure some head disease in the past…but it's a very old method…"

"I heard about it too," Aoi noted, "Back in our world, history mention something like this to remove tumors from the head…"

Robin nodded and turned back to the head. "I can say with confidences that he died roughly around 200 years and that he was about 30 years old. He must have died of sickness while voyaging. Uniquely, his teeth are surprisingly in good condition despite the rest of the skull. That indicates that they were covered with rubber oil…"

"Rubber oil?" Aoi blinked.

"It was a custom of a particular area in the South Blue. From the age of the skeleton and the history of that ocean, he and the ship he was on must have been for exploring…"

Robin picked a ship catalog book and skimmed through it for a moment. Finally, she arrived on the page she was looking for.

"Here it is. The Saint Breeze from the Kingdom of Breeze in the South Blue, it set sail 208 years ago…"

Robin showed everyone the picture found on the page.

"…! Hey!" Aoi exclaimed, "It's the same ship from the sky!"

"Yeah," Sanji hummed, "I recognized the head figure…"

"So it must have been up there for around 200 years," Chopper awed.

"Just from the skull, you can find that much information?" Nami awed.

"They say that Dead men tell no tales," Robin smiled, "But that's not exactly true…"

"True," Shiho nodded, "Tales about personal experience is lost, but person information like age and cause of death lingers…"

"So was she right?" Nami inquired.

Shiho hesitantly scan the skull. "She got most of it right! The only thing she couldn't mention was what the illness that took him…"

"Oh?" Robin peered at Shiho curiously, "You can tell?"

"It comes with the unglamorous part about being a Psychometrist…"

"I see," Robin nodded, "Anyway, if that ship was used for exploration, there must be a router in the ship…"

"But the said ship is sinking quickly-," Nami stated as she turn towards the wreckages…only to see Luffy drowning as Kaoru and Usopp try to help him out, "What are you guys DOING!?"

"Oi~! Kaoru!" Aoi comically screamed, "Hurry up and get Luffy out of the water already~!"

A little while later, Kaoru managed to drag both Usopp and Luffy back on board.

"Seriously~!" Shiho sighed tiredly, "Kaoru, the least you could do is make sure Luffy stayed above water out there…"

"It wasn't my fault!" Kaoru argued, "I was searching another part of the wreckage when it suddenly began to sink faster! By the time I got out, Luffy was already struggling in the water!"

"We let you go because you could keep both of them up!" Aoi lectured, "You have to keep in mind that Luffy can't swim!"

"Okay, okay~!"

"Hey guys, I found something really cool~!" Luffy suddenly cried out once he was done catching his breath and held out what looks like a paper map, "Look at this!"

"…!" Nami snatch the map out of Luffy's hand and inspected carefully, "…A map of…Sky Island!?"

Shiho glance over Nami shoulder to see. The map basically had a single nearly perfect landmass taking up most of frame. Miscellaneous items of all sorts were drawn in as well, but what caught Shiho's attention the most was scribble lines that represented the "ocean"…amazingly enough they look a lot like clouds.

"The name on the map is 'Skypiea'," Nami read, "Does that mean there really is an island up there!?"

"All right~!" Luffy cheered, "There is a Sky Island!"

"The Dream island~!" Kaoru cheered as well as she joined Luffy, Usopp and Chopper in an arm-linked dance, "Let's go for it~~!"

"Yeah~~!" Usopp and Chopper cheered.

"…Now it's a Dream Island?" Aoi sighed with a sweat drop.

"Don't get so worked up," Nami suddenly announced, "It's still just a possibility. After all, there are too many fake maps out there-…"

DOOM~~~! If it was possible, that was the sound created by Kaoru, Luffy, Usopp and Chopper as their fantasy ended abruptly with the look of shock and despair on their face, gloomily staring at Nami.

"…You certainly know how to hit them hard, huh Nami?" Shiho sweat dropped at their comical depressed face.

"Ah~, sorry!" Nami exclaimed at their reaction, "There is, there is! There must be one…"

"She's just trying to say that she doesn't know how to get there…"

"My point exactly," Nami exclaimed, punching the metallic plate that cover the main mast in frustration, "The map doesn't tell HOW to get there!"

"Oi, Nami, take it easy on the ship-," Usopp managed before Luffy suddenly yelled back at Nami.

"You're the Navigator, right!?" Luffy proclaimed, "Think of something!"

"There is something call impossible!" Nami yelled back in defiant, "And even if it wasn't it's beyond me~~!"

"I don't care~! I want to go there~~!"

"Nami-san so cute when she's angry," Sanji commented as Nami resorted to violence to get Luffy to shut up.

"Sanji-han get a life," Aoi sighed.

"Either way," Shiho scratched her head in frustration, "At this point we can't go anywhere, right?"

"Yeah," Nami sighed, looking at the Log Pose, "The Log Pose stays pointing up! What we need now is information like Robin-nee-san said. If it's possible for such a big ship to get up there, it must be possible for us too! We must get our hands on the ship's router!"

"But it's totally sunk by now," Usopp hummed in thought as poked at the unconscious body of Luffy, "How are we going to get it?"

"If it's sunk then we'll just have to salvage it!"

"Alright~~~!" Usopp, Kaoru and the now awaken Luffy cheered as shouldered some fishing gears.

"Is that even POSSIBLE!?" Zoro and Aoi exclaimed.

"…? What's 'salvage'?" Chopper wondered.

"It means to pull up a sunken ship," Robin informed.

"Back where we came from," Shiho hummed, "salvage was possible with small ships, but…"

"Yes, this one is too big for us. So we're simply going to salvage the content…"

"…But how?" Chopper wondered.

"Not bad at all~! Just one thing," Luffy laughed before staring at Usopp nervously, "Are you sure this going to work?"

"Don't worry!" Usopp puffed out his chest confidently, "My work is as good as perfection~!"

"…That's as far I can give credit for," Shiho sweat dropped.

Luffy, Zoro, Sanji and Kaoru were now wearing the closest thing to a Scuba-Gear that Usopp could make. They are simply barrels with a window to see and a hose on top of each one connecting them to the air and the ship. Luffy's barrel suit was specially design so that he won't come in contact with too much water. Shiho admit that the suits look dubious at first, but her scan shows that it was praiseworthy and should perform their task accordingly.

"It's up to you four now," Nami smiled at the venturous four.

"Nami-san~!" Sanji exclaimed, "I'll find the thing that will bring us up to the sky~!"

"You mean to Sky Island," Kaoru snickered, "Anyone can go up to the 'sky' by dying…"

"Kaoru, don't say something so ominous," Aoi sweat dropped.

By chance, at that time a flock of pterosaurs flocked by nearby but a giant fish came out from under the sea and snatched one of them out of the sky.

"… … … …Well," Nami managed, directing the four over the side of the boat, "Good luck…"

"You're going to send them down even after seeing that!?" Aoi comically exclaimed, pointing at the area that the giant fish had dive back down at.

"See ya~!" Kaoru cheered as she and the other three jumped into the water without hesitation.

"What-!? Wait!" Shiho managed before watching the four disappeared under the waves.

The mechanism that is allowing them to breathe continues to feed the lines to divers as they went further down.

"T-This is Chopper!" Chopper called into the funnels that the divers are using to communicate to them, "Please reply…"

"This is Luffy," the funnel connected to Luffy responded, "There's so many monsters down here~!"

"Is that a giant sea snake den!?" Zoro's voice came through his funnel.

"Sanji here-Wow~~~!" Sanji's voice range through his funnel, "I see it coming this way~!"

"This Kaoru~!" Kaoru's proclaimed through her funnels, "False alarm~! The Sea Snakes seem to have gotten agitated by some yellow liquid that is seeping out of Zoro and Sanji's pants-!"

"No they did not~~!" Zoro and Sanji angrily exclaimed in protest, "Quick making up crap~!"

"Ow! You guys didn't need to kick me!"

"…Ok," Nami simply nodded at the multitude of reports.

"How is THAT ok!?" Usopp and Aoi exclaimed.

"They'll be fine, so stop whining…"

"…Chopper, pull the brakes," Shiho instructed, having touched the funnels, "They have arrive at their destination.

"Got it!" Chopper nodded before causing the mechanism to stop feeding more hoses.

"…Thank god I didn't go," Usopp commented.

"I'm not crazy about this myself," Aoi commented in agreement, before perking her ears, "…Hey, do you guys hear something?"

"…?" Shiho listened carefully before her ears picked up what Aoi heard, "Singing? …Chanting?"

The noise was small at first, but it soon became loud enough to be heard by everyone without trying so hard. At that moment, a ship at least three times as big as the Merry Go arrived on the scene. And judging by the design of the ship's flag, it was a pirate ship.

"… … …Now what?"

"Company~~~ Halt~~~!" A loud voice called out among the chanting on the ship.

"Aye-Aye sir~!" a choir of enthusiastic voices rang out.

"Is this the location of the Sunken Ship!?"

"Aye-Aye Boss~!"

"…Boss, huh? In other words, that's me!" Suddenly a rather large…uh, "man" stepped into view. Despite that pervious sentence, Aoi and Shiho couldn't help but sweat dropped at how monkey-like his appearance was, even with the orange-yellow jumpsuit, headphones and goggles. "Prepare to salvage~! The Ship is mine~~!"

The rest of his crew exclaimed enthusiastically by making monkey-like noises.

"… …Is that human?" Shiho finally managed.

"Shiho, that's rude!" Aoi comically dope slap her childhood friend.

"But they look like a boat of unstable men lead by an unstable monkey…"

"Like. I. Said! That's rude!"

"…Great~," Nami sighed with a sweat drop, "Of all the times, why must it be now that these weirdoes come?"

"…? Hey, what are you guys doing here?" the large man suddenly inquired, finally noticing their presence, "This here is my territory!"

"…Territory?"

"That's right! Every sunken ship around here is the property of the 'Salvage King' Masira…in other words, me! You're not trying to take stuff that belongs me, are you-?"

"…The 'Salvage King' Masira, huh?" Shiho hummed, before turning to the other, "Judging from the title, he specialized in salvaging…"

"Yes," Robin nodded, "it appears they're going to bring it to the surface…"

"…In that case," Aoi pondered, "Wouldn't that benefit us too? It makes things easier for us…"

"Ah~!" Nami thumped her palm, "You got a point…"

"But what about the four that went below?" Usopp noted.

"I think we should just keep our mouth shut about that and let him do it…"

"HEY! Stop with the small talk among yourselves!" Masira exclaimed from being ignored, "Answer my question now~! Are you people trying to yank one of my salvages from right under me!?"

"Excuse me!" Nami called out suddenly, "Can I ask you a question first?"

"You got questions for me!?" Masira exclaimed while comically bulging his eyes out.

"…Talk about overreacting," Aoi sweat dropped.

"…Fine, sure, whatever! Asks me anything…"

"He's not going to complain?" Shiho sweat dropped, "… …well, whatever…"

"Well, here's my question," Nami continued, "Are all of you tough, good-looking men going to salvage that ship~?"

"…What!?" Masira blushed before shyly grinning, "Why, thank you~! I see that you know what a real man looks like~!"

"…? What are talking about?"

"You call us all 'tough, good-looking man', which includes me, right~?"

"…Uh, well, of course~!"

"Oh, stop! You're making me blush~!"

"…This is disturbing," Aoi sweat dropped.

"So, are you going to salvage that ship or what?" Shiho inquired.

"Of course! I'm not called the 'Salvage King' for nothing! If there's a sunken in front of me, I'll salvage it! If it's not sunken, then I'll sink it and salvage it later!"

"…That's the logic of a bandit," Aoi sweat dropped.

"They aren't average sailors, obviously," Usopp retorted; in other words, he was telling her that they are pirates.

"Ah~!"

"Now," Masira continued, "I know how impress you are, but save it for later! We got a salvaging to do!"

"…So," Shiho suddenly called, "Is it okay if we watch how you do it?"

"Ah-! Shiho!" Usopp and Chopper exclaimed nervously.

"Huh?" Masira blinked before nodding in understanding, "Ah~! I see! You guys have never seen it done before! Alright, just watch how we do it to your heart's content!"

"Nice work, Shiho," Nami smirked at the silver-haired girl.

"This will buy us some time," Shiho shrugged with a smile, "Now we just have to wait and see what happen…"

"Boss! We got a problem!" one of the crewmembers of Masira suddenly exclaimed, "Our crew that went under to secure the cradle! Something happen to them!"

"What!?" Masira exclaimed, "Was it one of those Sea Monsters again?"

"I don't think so, boss! It looks like they were punched!"

"WHAT!? You mean someone else besides our guys are down there!?"

"Ugh," Shiho and Aoi gasped nervously.

"Oh no, not good~!" Usopp shivered.

"I'm going to kill those idiots~!" Nami sweated in fear.

"We may not get the chance~," Shiho managed.

Masira glared back at the Straw Hats. "Hey you guys, listen up~~!"

"Eek!" Nami and Usopp managed as Shiho and Aoi braced themselves.

"There's someone else down there~! So be careful~~!"

Shiho and Aoi preformed a comical face fault.

"Hmm? Is something wrong?"

"Uh, no!" Aoi and Shiho managed after recollecting themselves, "N-Nothing~!" 'What a moron~!'

"Y-Yeah," Nami and Usopp managed, "T-Thanks for the warning~!" 'Luckily, he's an idiot~…'

"Secure the cradle!" Masira ordered his crew, "Begin the salvaging~! I want the ship up in twenty minutes~!"

"Aye-Aye Boss!" His crew responded.

Kaoru: "Let's find that Ship Router so we can go to Sky Island~!"

Luffy (Cheering): "Yeah~~~!"

Masira: "So it was you guys that are causing me problems huh? I wonder where they came from?"

Aoi (sweating nervously): "I-I wonder myself~! Ha-ha-ha~~~!"

Normama: "Don't leave yet~! I have decided to post yet another chapter for this story! It should be up by the end of the day! Stay tune until then~!"

Shiho (eyes bulging out and jaws hanging open): "A-A-A-A-A-A-Are those giants~~~!? EEEEEKKKK~~!"