"Well that was a cool place!" Luffy declared as he sat on Merry's head. Nami walked over to the captain annoyed by his enthusiasm, "Really? We were attacked on that stupid island. The only good thing that came out from it was getting the gold! It was a terrible place besides that." She placed her hands on her hips. Kimi noticed that both Nami and Robin had changed from their dirty clothes in their quarters while Kimi came back out to the deck to talk to Chopper.
"Yea, it was a terrible place, but I'd like to go back." He laughed and held onto his straw hat as the wind started to blow.
"We better start to be careful whenever we get close to towns now that we have three wanted criminals on the ship. The marines and bounty hunters will stop at nothing to intercept our ship." Nami warned the crew on the deck.
Kimi and Chopper sat on the deck together chatting about the basics of medicine but Kimi's ears perked up when Nami talked about criminals. "I thought only Luffy had a bounty on his head." Kimi whispered interrupting Chopper. He shook his small furry head, "Both Robin and Luffy have bounty's. Robin's had a bounty for a long time. But then again she is older than all of us."
Kimi looked over at the mature woman. She could tell that there was an uneasy aurora that shrouded her, but Kimi had only just met her along with the other members of the crew and she didn't want to judge any of her new friends. Her thought ended as a piece of old wood fell into her lap. "What?" She picked it up and noticed a rusty old nail in the small piece of wood.
"Rain?"
"This ain't rain…"
"Hail?"
The crew all looked up and became astonished by the sight. A giant ship was falling from the sky right next to the Merry!
As the ship hit the water, a huge waved pushed the Merry off course and splashed the crew on it. Kimi held onto Chopper and braced herself on the rail so that the two of them, both being devil fruit users, wouldn't be helpless if they had accidently fallen in.
"Brace yourselves, hold onto the ship!" Zoro called from the mast.
"What? What is this? How in the world is this happening?" Nami cried as she held onto the railing for dear life.
Kimi looked up at the remains of the falling wood completely studded by the event. "This is impossible. I wouldn't have believe it if I hadn't seen it!" She thought.
"A dream! Yea this must just be a bad dream!" Ussopp tried to fool himself so he wouldn't be as scared.
"Oi, there is still a lot of stuff coming down. Be careful!" Sanji yelled out to the crew. Kimi continued to hold onto Chopper and the rail as the splashing water rained down from above.
"Try to turn the helm! Do it now!" Nami yelled out.
"That won't work in these powerful waves!" Sanji replied back, "Luffy we have to protect the ship at all cost! It is in bad enough shape as it is."
"Yosh!" Luffy nodded wrapping his rubber arms around the mast. "Oi, Ussopp what are you?-"
Ussopp was in a meditating position with his eyes closed in the middle of the deck for some odd reason. "To ease one's fears, become calm and close your eyes. And then slowly lift your eyelids and- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He screamed louder than anyone Kimi had ever heard in her life.
She looked at the marksmen and noticed a skeleton on top of the poor guy. He frantically tried to throw it off of him and in doing so threw it near Nami. "IDIOT DON'T THROW IT OVER HERE!" She screamed.
After what seemed like forever, eventually the waves calmed and the pieces of broken wood ceased to fall from the sky anymore. Kimi laid down the now unconscious Chopper and walked over to side to look at the ship beginning to sink in the water. "That is impossible…" She whispered.
"Why'd a ship fall from the sky!" Luffy yelled out looking back up.
"It's a total mystery. There's nothing in the sky." Sanji replied.
Kimi felt something shaking on her leg or rather someone holding onto her pants leg for dear life. "The….the….the grand line is soooooooooooo scaryyyyyyy!" Ussopp cried. "First a island of scary attacking men and human eating plant monsters and now a ship falls from the sky."
Kimi patted his head, "Don't worry there's got to be some logic to this." Just then Nami screamed and everyone focus turned to her.
"What is wrong Nami-san?" Sanji asked.
"The log pose is broken! It's pointing up and it won't move!" She franticly shook it trying to fix the pose.
"No that's not it. An island with a strong magnetic field is causing the needle to point to a new log. And since the needle is pointing up, the log seems to be pointing to Sky Island." Robin looked up at the clouds.
"SKY ISLAND!" Everyone, including Kimi, yelled out.
"What is that?"
"Is it a floating island?"
"Th-th-that ship and those sk-skeltons fell from there?"
"But…there is nothing in the sky that looks like an island."
"I wouldn't say that." Robin corrected Zoro's statement. "To be more precise, what's floating up there is a sea."
Ussopp leaped off of Kimi's leg and towards Luffy and somehow Chopper ran to Luffy as well. "A SEA!" Their eyes sparkled.
Kimi walked down to the rest of the group. "This is getting harder and harder to take in." She crossed her arms looking over at Robin.
Luffy pointed to the sky, "Ah haaaaa! So there's an ocean in the sky with an island on it! Yosh let's go!"
"Okay men, steer up the helm! Hard turn skyward!" Ussopp suddenly gain a burst of courage all of a sudden. Annoyed, Robin covered both of their mouths with her sprouting hands.
"In any case captain, we can't turn the helm up." Sanji lit a cigarette taking a deep breath in and blowing a big cloud out.
"Actually, to tell the truth, I've never been to Sky Island. And I don't know much about it." Robin remarked.
"Of course not! It's all impossible! Island and seas floating in the sky! The Log pose is broken that's all." Nami shrugged the thought away and looked at the small band on her arm.
"No, Miss Navigator. What you should think of now is not how to fix a broken Log Pose, but how you are going to get to the sky. No matter what bizarre circumstances your ship should encounter, no matter what panic should befall you, you must not doubt the Log Pose. On this sea, if there is something to doubt, it's your own common sense." Robin explained to the crew.
Kimi honestly couldn't believe that such a thing could be real. But like Robin said, when the needle points to something you would find an island. She took a deep breath and looked back out at the sinking ship. "We should probably find some information about the ship in regards to Sky Island." She thought aloud.
Luffy apparently heard her and stretched his arms out and climbed aboard to the ship along with Ussopp. She walked off to see what the other's were up to and to her surprise Robin had opened the casket with the dead skeleton and was putting his shattered skull back together.
"Robin you sure do have some weird hobbies." Nami groaned as she hid behind the mast.
"Will you find anything out?" Zoro stared at the women strangely. Kimi walked next to him, "Forensics. You can actually tell a lot about a dead body if you have the right clues." Kimi responded and Robin smiled up at the girl. "You are correct Miss Scientist. How old would you say this body has been dead?" She placed the now reconstructed skull on the deck.
Kimi knelt down and examined the skull, "For a very very long time. Probably about 150 years plus." Kimi stood back up.
"Oi, where's Luffy?" Zoro noticed their loud mouth captain hadn't said anything recently. Kimi pointed out to the ship in the distance.
"Look, these holes in the skull are artificial. As a result of a medical treatment, Burr hole surgery don't you think so Mr. Doctor?" Robin declared pointing to two small holes in the back of the skull.
"Yea, to remove brain tumors, they used to drill holes in the skull. But that's an archaic practice." Chopper hid behind the mast with Nami.
"Yes, at least 200 years have passed since he died. He was in his early 30's. During his voyage, he collapsed and died from illness." Robin concluded about the skull and opened a book that she happened to have nearby. She flipped through the pages and found the exact ship from a picture in the book. "Here, the Bliss Kingdom in South Blue. That ship, the St. Bliss, originated from there. It sailed 208 years ago. So for at least 200 years, this ship has been wandering around in the sky."
"Finding all that from some bones, that is so interesting." Nami kneeled down suddenly curious about the process Robin constructed on the bones.
"If it was an exploratory vessel, there must be other forms of evidence and documents still on the ship." Robin stated like Kimi had earlier.
"But with the ship sinking that will be hard to do." Nami walked over to the completely sunken ship. "AH! LUFFY, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" She yelled as Luffy started to drown.
Ussopp swam in the water and retrieve the drowning rubber boy and swam back to the Merry. As they arrived back on the deck Luffy got really excited for some reason. "Oi guys! I found something great! Look at this!" He took from out of his pocket a piece of old tattered paper and unrolled it in front of the crew.
Kimi looked at the paper but couldn't see it from far away without her glasses. She took them from out of her pocket and just as she refocused on the paper, the crew had already shouted out what was written on the paper.
"A MAP OF SKY ISLAND?" Kimi looked at the map and noticed in bold letters the word: Skypiea on the upper left corner.
"See? See?" Luffy smiled as Nami snatched the map out of his hands.
"So there really is an island in the sky?" Kimi looked up at the clouds hoping to get a glimpse of an island of some kind.
Luffy, Ussopp and Chopper all began to dance, "We did it! We did it! Sky Island does exist! A dream island, we're going to a dream island!"
Kimi walked over to Nami peaking from over her shoulder looking at all of the details of the map. It was very worn and tattered. Kimi didn't want to touch the dingy paper because it looked like it would rip at any second.
"You guys are celebrating too early. The world is full of fake maps." Nami busted the trio's bubble and they started at her with their hopes and dreams drained from their face. "Ah, sorry. It exists, but I don't know how to get there!"
"You're the navigator! Figure it out!"
"There are things I can and can't do!"
"I don't care we are going to Sky Island!"
Angry Nami finally finished the argument by hitting him square in the face. "In any case, we can't possible continue on like this. What we need now is exactly what Robin said. Information! If that giant ship really was in the sky, then there must be a way for our ship to get there too. We need to get onto that ship and pulled out any documents or records left."
"But the ship is completely sunk by now." Ussopp blankly stated.
"If it's sunk, we'll salvage it! Kimi start to make us salvaging diving equipment!" Nami pointed at the girl. Kimi titled her head. "Me?" She asked blankly.
"Kimi, you're a scientist right? You can tell Ussopp how to make it and he'll do it!" She smiled. "Why are you bringing me into this!" Ussopp yelled at the boasting girl.
Kimi looked around and noticed the empty barrels on the deck. "Yea, I guess I could figure out a salvaging diver suit. Ussopp go grab us some nails, tubing, plastic, and some cloth." She gathered the four empty barrels with her clones.
Ussopp returned with the supplies shortly after and spread out all of the tools. The two began to work with Kimi instructing Ussopp on the design she quickly sketched in her notebook. After they finished a few hours later, Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro all put on the suits ready to dive under the water.
"Luffy, be careful, the water will make you somewhat weak since half of your body is in it." Kimi warned the ecstatic captain. "This is so cool! You make us do some crazy things, Nami!" He laughed.
"NAMI-SWAN! I'm absolutely going to find you a clue about getting to Sky Island!" Sanji jumped up and down.
"I'm counting on you!" Nami lied.
"Don't worry about a thing. Our design is flawless!" Ussopp smiled looking at the guys as they walked over to the edge of the ship. "Good luck!" Kimi smiled waving the three off.
The remaining five members of the crew watched as they dived down the depths of the ocean. Kimi watched nervously, praying that her design would keep the guys safe but her thought was cut off when she heard strange music blasting off in the distance. She looked up on the horizon and saw a giant yellow banana looking boat coming towards the Merry.
"What the heck is that?" Ussopp pulled down one of his binoculars from his scarf at the top of his head.
As the ship anchored next to where the ship had originally sunk, a monkey man of some kind started to declare that he had found the ship and that he was going to salvage it.
"And just when we need it least, some weirdo's show up." Nami sweat dropped.
"Oi, you guys! What're you doing there? This is my territory!" the monkey man yelled out to the crew.
"Territory?" Kimi yelled out.
"Yes any ships that sink in this territory are mine. You better not be trying anything over there!" He yelled back.
Kimi noticed something strange. "So has this happened once before? He might know something about Skypeia." She whispered to the others.
"Excuse me! May I ask you a question?" Nami yelled out to the monkey man.
"Fine, ask me whatever you like!" He yelled out.
"Are you going to salvage that ship?"
"You bet I am! There's no question about what I'll do! If there's a ship sunk, I'm the man to salvage it! And if it's still floating, I'll sink it and then pull it up!" He yelled back.
"Then would you mind if we watch?" Kimi smiled at the man.
"So you've never seen a salvage before?" He laughed, "Fine! Go ahead and watch all you like!"
"Okay, Chopper and Ussopp, take note of what he does guys." Kimi smiled at them.
As the monkey men crew started to prepare for the salvaging, Kimi noticed that they had such advance equipment to perform the task. "So they have done this many times before. Or else they wouldn't have as much stuff." She noted.
"They take a lot of pride in this." Ussopp stared at the crew while pumping air through the tubes of their crewmates.
"I think they are trying to show off for us…" Nami whispered.
Just then the monkey figurehead started to descend in the water. "Wow that is really awesome!" "That is really awesome!" Ussopp and Chopper beamed at the money. Kimi noticed that the monkey man was about to blow into a strange tube. "Is he trying to blow a bubble underneath the water?" Kimi wondered shocked. "That's crazy!" Nami replied to her comment.
There must have been a problem with the boys down in the ship because all of a sudden the monkey man started to yell about how they had hurt his men. "Looks like Luffy and the others met up with our new friends." Kimi said under her breath.
"I'm going down! Continue with the salvage men!" the monkey man yelled and jumped into the ocean. He was gone only for a few minutes but just then the ocean started to shake. "What the heck is going on now?" Kimi thought holding onto the railing. She looked over the ship and noticed a giant shadow forming underneath the ship and the Monkey ship. Just as she was about to speak again, her question was answered by a huge oversized turtle popping out from the water.
In the mouth of the oversized turtle, were both the air tubes from the Merry and the Monkey crew. "This can't be real!" Nami yelled out. "Yes, it must just be a dream. Nothing but a bad dream." Ussopp laughed. Nami, Chopper, and Ussopp all turned around ignoring the turtle.
"Um guys, this isn't a dream and we gotta do something or else the guys are gonners." Chopper started to run around frantically screaming while Ussopp and Nami cried, "Don't bring it up!"
The force of the turtle chewing the boat made the tube pull the ship under and towards it. "If we don't cut the ropes then the ship will be pulled under the water." Robin calmly stated. "Robin you are strong, do something!" Ussopp yelled at the woman. "I can't." She simply replied. "Kimi! You do something then!"
"Ussopp! Cut the lines and lead us to safety!" Nami yelled out. "You are the devil." Ussopp cried.
Just as Kimi was about to open her mouth to respond the sky suddenly turned to nightfall. Kimi looked up in confusion. "It's night time now?"
Nami looked at a pocket watch she had on hand. "It's not even close to evening." Ussopp cried out his fallen members names to the world. But Kimi and Robin heard something interesting on the other ship.
"Sudden night fall is a sign that monsters will appear. The ship is going to be sunk! We need to save the captain!"
From out of nowhere, Luffy mysteriously flew from out of the water and onto the ship with a filled up bag on his back. "Luffy! What's wrong, are you dead?" Nami ran over and smacked him in the face. Zoro and Sanji then hopped on the ship with bags on their backs as well. Kimi smiled at the green-haired man as he stood from his crouched position.
"Set sail. We gotta get away from this position!" He told the rest of the crew. "Zoro, Sanji! Good thing you guys aren't dead! Yea we gotta get away from that turtle!" Ussopp ran over to the boys.
"Turtle? No there was a monkey. He a Luffy became friends, but then he started to rampage when we gathered our treasure." Zoro explained. Kimi looked over at the turtle and noticed it had its mouth open and look horrified at the sky. Kimi looked up and screamed at the sight falling backwards from the shock.
"What is wrong with you?" Zoro let go of the treasure on his back and looked back at the massive turtle. "Oh my gosh! What the heck is that!" He yelled out. "NOTICE THESE THINGS!" Ussopp yelled back at the absent minded swordsman.
Just then the monkey man appeared on the ship and started to yell about treasure, but Kimi couldn't take her eyes off of the horrifying event she saw in the sky. "How-How is this possible? There is so much that I have seen today…I don't think I could take much more." She thought.
Then the rest of the crew finally noticed the phenomenon in the sky. Three warrior looking shadow men covered the entire sky. It almost looked like they were looking down on the spot that the Merry was in.
"MONSTERS!"
One of the shadows started to raise a spear and suddenly the Merry took off in an instant. All of the boys ran to the emergency paddles and rowed the ship away from the darkness in no time flat.
Kimi laid on the ground trying to forget the horrifying image from her memory. That was probably the scariest thing she had ever seen in her life, even scarier than a surprise visit from her horrible sister.
"That couldn't have been real."
"Those things…were too huge to be real…"
Kimi lifted herself up sitting mermaid style and noticed the crew forming in front of the mast. "Man, the Grand Line is just a big parade of one mysterious thing after another…" Sanji lit a new cigarette and blew out the smoke.
"Yeah, that sure was scary. I can tell you." A weird voice chimed in. Everyone looked and noticed the Monkey man had still been on the ship. Luffy, Zoro and Sanji all ran over and kicked the man off the ship and somewhere far off in the distance. "GET OFF!" They yelled and watched him fly away.
The crew regained their composure and Nami set off to explore what types of treasure the guys had brought back. Kimi had enough with the falling ship from the sky and went to the kitchen to grab a drink of water in order to clear her mind.
As she searched the kitchen for the water jug and a glass she thought about her father. "Father, if only you were here with me. I'm not sure I can be as brave as you think I can." She sipped the refreshing water and sat down at the table. "I miss you so much, father. I wonder if you miss me. I wonder if you left the Village." She hated the fact that she had no contact with him, but she needed to learn how to grow up. Ever since she was little, her father always protected her, cared for her and he was her only friend. It was time for her to grow up; she was 20 after all, and take responsibility for herself.
She finished her water and washed the glass out and placed it in the drying rack. "Oh Kimi-chan. Are you hungry?" Sanji walked into his work place and smiled at the girl as he removed his suit jacket and rolled up his sleeves.
"Well, I am a little hungry." Kimi sighed feeling a bit embarrassed for some reason. Sanji walked over and washed his hands in the sink, "Well what would you like my sweet?" He smiled.
"Whatever is available, I'm not picky." She smiled back. Sanji nodded and walked over to the pantry, "You know Kimi, there always seems to be something your upset about? Are you happy being on the Merry?" He gathered some food and began to work on the meal.
Kimi sat down and sighed. "I just feel like I'm getting in the way." Sanji looked back surprised by her reason. "Well out of everyone here, Kimi-san, you are not getting in the way of anyone. No one in our crew is. We all have a different reason to be together and our ultimate goal is to help Luffy become the pirate king along with completing all of our own dreams." Sanji started to cook the food. "What is your dream Kimi?" He looked back at her.
Kimi thought about this and finally thought of something, "I want be recognized as the most brilliant in the whole world." Sanji laughed and started to plate the food on separate plates for each of the crew members and even gave Kimi a plate at the table. "That's perfect. Go for your dream no matter what." He walked back over and made some more food.
"Sanji, what is your dream?" She took a bite of the food.
"To find the all-blue. It is an ocean with every single type of fish in the world. It supposed to be the most beautiful thing in the world and I want to find it and catch all the fish and creature in it." He finished cooking and started to clean up.
Kimi finished her plate and handed it to him as he washed the rest of the dishes, "That sounds amazing! I want to see it too!" She smiled. "I'm sorry if I seem upset. This is all new to me, being on my own. My father always took care of me, he was my only friend and now I have you all and it's just…different."
Sanji looked back at her concerned. "Don't get me wrong, I love having you all as friends. You guys are so nice." She bowed her head. Sanji walked over to her and lifted her chin up looking into her blue eyes beyond her glasses, "No matter what you can always count on us, and more importantly, Luffy. Whatever has happened in the past is in the past now. We all have pasts, some good, most of us not so good, but we have move forward and reach our dreams now." He let her go and picked up the plates, "Would you mind opening the door Kimi-sweet?" He smiled.
Kimi smiled and nodded much happier now. "Thank you Sanji." She entered out into the ship and walked out to the railing that looked over the deck of the Merry. Next to her was the infamous swordsman but he seemed too into his thought to talk to her.
Kimi started to laugh as Luffy and Sanji argued over the food he had just made. "Is there really an island in the sky?" Zoro thought allowed. She looked at him and shrugged, "We've seen so much today. If I hadn't seen the ship fall from the sky myself, I wouldn't have believed it."
"Regardless of the fact that it goes against common sense, there's no reason to doubt it." Robin interrupted. "That is the common sense of the sea." Kimi stared at the woman and the back at the front. Smiling, Kimi walked off to the women's quarters to refresh herself before the crew arrived at the next island.
When the Merry docked at the harbor, Kimi noticed that there seemed to be many pirate looking ships docked in the harbor too. She noted that the crew should be careful if they walked around the town. It could be trouble.
Eager, Luffy and Zoro hopped off the Merry and into the town not even asking anyone else of the crew what the plan of action was going to be. "Do we honestly think those two can make it back without causing trouble?" Nami pouted watching the two walk in the town. "This place is pretty rough to being with. Have a little faith in them, Nami." Kimi walked over watching the two walk off.
Nami laughed. "Kimi-san, you are so right! Go with those two and make sure they don't do anything stupid. Oh and ask about Skypeia if you can!" Nami pushed the girl to the ladder. "Nami, what-?" Kimi wasn't too thrilled with the idea. "Nonsense, you are much more reliable than those two. Now go!" She pushed her forcefully down the ladder.
Kimi sighed and chased after the two, "Hey Luffy! Zoro! Wait up for me!"
"Do you think she'll be okay if she's with those two?" Ussopp asked the navigator. "Of course. She's smart right? She can do it."
"Nami said I had to go with you guys so that you wouldn't get in trouble. But we also need to find more information about the sky island so we should probably stop somewhere where a bunch of people will be." The three walked around in silence trying to find someplace that would have information. Eventually they came to an oasis resort area.
"Wow, this looks so peaceful." Kimi smiled looking around and breaking from the boys. "Oh-oh no, you must not be in this area. A-an-and because of this, we must ask you to leave." A weird man ran up to Kimi looking very frantic. "T-the Tropical Hotel is being rented out by the Bellamy party!"
"Oh so this is a hotel?" Zoro looked around at the hotel. "I-if Bellamy-sama saw you here, matters would be terrible! So I must ask you to somehow-"
"Oh come on. We can at least take a look inside!" Luffy groaned. "Who is this Bellamy anyways?" Zoro asked again. "Come on guys, we should leave-" Kimi started to saw be two other figures appeared at the entrance they had come through.
"Hey where did these grubby little kids come from?" The man yelled out. He was a pretty tall guy, with light blue hair and had on blue sun glasses. He wore a fur coat and a weird face tattoo on his chest. The girl on his side was a blonde slender girl with sunglasses on and a red bandana on the top of her head. "How much do you think we paid to rent this place out? Kick them to the curb!" She girl rudely yelled to the poor old man. The two walked over and glared at Luffy. "Go home you little shit!"
Luffy looked over at Kimi, "Oi, is it okay if I kick his ass?" He pointed to the man. Kimi shook her head. "No, Nami would not like that Luffy."
The man laughed, "Kick my ass? We got a funny guy over here. You little kids look pretty shabby." He dug into his pocket and threw out some money. "Here go out and buy you some new clothes." He smirked.
"Sarquiss, you're just wasting it on a lot like them." The lady laughed and so did the man, "Maybe it would do more good if I threw it in a ditch." Kimi felt like she was about to beat some manners into this guy but Luffy thought the money must have been some sort of offering because he went to pick it up.
"No Luffy!" Kimi snapped and reached for his hand. "We are leaving, now." She dragged him pass the two. "Oi, Kimi! I can walk on my own!" Luffy protested but Kimi continued to hold his wrist. "Let's check out this bar right over here. I saw a lot of people through the windows." She let go of his hand as soon as they reached the bar.
"What's wrong Kimi? They were giving us some money!" Luffy asked and followed the girl. "Luffy, he was insulting us. You don't take something when they insult you." She sighed and shook her head. The three walked into the bar and headed towards the bartender in the back.
"Mock Town has become a place for pirates to unload their riches." The bartender explained as he poured the trio their drinks. "Because so many pirates come into the town every day, brawls and murder have become an everyday occurrence now. They usually won't kill the townsfolk though." He handed Luffy and the guy next to him their house special, cherry pie. "Here you guys go. Enjoy."
The scientist sighed, "I still didn't like that. He was not appropriate, even if he was a pirate." She took a sip of her water. The bartender laughed, "Sorry to tell you this, but you won't find any ordinary people in this town." Kimi nodded and just when she was about to ask him about Sky Island both Luffy and the man next to him call out to the bartender.
"THIS CHERRY PIE IS SO TASTY/NASTY I COULD DIE!" The two spoke at the same time. They looked at each other and growled. Then simultaneously the two drank their drinks, "THIS DRINK IS ESPICAIALLY DISGUSTING/DELICIOUS!" The man looked down on Luffy. He was a giant of a man with curly black hair similar to Ussopp's and a scraggly black beard.
"Jerk, you got something wrong with your tongue?" He asked Luffy. "You got something wrong with your head?" He responded back.
"Well, I'm not the cook here, so I don't care what you say." The bartender replied to the two. "Ossan, I want 50 pieces of meat to go please!" Luffy smiled.
"I want 51 cherry pies!" The other man declared.
"No I want 52 pieces of meat!"
"No, I want 53 pies!"
"60 pieces of meat!"
"70 pies!
"80"
"100!"
The two looked at each other, "WHAT, YOU WANNA FIGHT?"
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU FIGHTING OVER?" Zoro yelled back at them. "No Luffy! We don't have that kind of money and you said that you wouldn't fight in this town. Remember, Nami will get mad at me that I let you fight." Kimi tried to break up the ridiculous fight.
"Come on now! I'll thank you not to fight in this pub!" The bartender placed a bundle of boxes in front of the other man. "Just take this and leave, 50 cherry pies." The man quietly picked up his pack and walked out of the bar.
Kimi sighed relieved that she had avoided a fight yet again but the moment was short lived as a man entered the pub yelling out for a man wearing a straw hat in the bar. Many of the men gasped saying, "Run, its Bellamy!"
Luffy turned around looking at the man walking over to the three. He had blonde hair a crooked smile and wore a pink shirt with white trousers and a blue captain's coat over his shoulders. "So you're the one with a 30,000,000 Berri bounty, Straw Hat Luffy?"
"It looks like he is calling you out, Luffy." Zoro casually stated. "Hey isn't Bellamy the one who rented out the hotel? Be careful Luffy…" Kimi whispered.
"I'll have the most expensive liquor you have and give the shrimp here something he likes." commanded the tall man known as Bellamy. Kimi could feel that there was something not right about this man. He seemed so arrogant just like the other he they had met back at the hotel.
"What is with this place?" "It's full for some reason." "And they're all drinking cheap rum." More pirates, Kimi guess Bellamy's crew and the two from the hotel, arrived behind the man. By now, most of the people already in the bar started to run away. Some crying and others completely terrified.
The bartender brought Luffy and Bellamy their drinks. "You better drink up." Bellamy smiled evilly. "Hey thanks! You are a nice guy!" Luffy started to drink his glass full when all of a sudden Bellamy turned and smashed Luffy's head into the bar breaking it in half. Kimi screamed for a second and hoped to god Luffy was alright, some of Bellamy's friends however, laughed hysterically enjoying the prank of their captain.
Zoro rushed into action holding one of his swords to Bellamy's throat. "What are you doing?" He laughed. "That's a question you should answer." Zoro spat out back to the man.
"Wait Zoro! We still haven't gotten any information and-"
"This guy asked for a fight and I'm giving it to him!" He yelled back shutting Kimi up. Luffy started to stand up wiping his bloody face off from the attack. "So you can still stand huh?" Bellamy laughed at Luffy. "Yosh, I hope you have prepared yourself then." Luffy threatened.
Kimi knew she was about to run out of time, panicking she looked over at the bartender, "Please Oji-san, we came seeking information on Sky Island. Do you know anything about it?" Suddenly everyone was quiet and looked over at the blue-haired girl.
"What did that woman just say?" "She's kidding, right?"
She ignored the bar and continued on, "Because if you know the way to Sky Island then-" The entire bar erupted into laughter, "Great, now I look like a complete fool…" She started to blush completely embarrassed by her question.
"Oi oi oi, you guys believe that old cock-and-bull story about there being an island in the sky? Man what era are you living in? There are many unique ocean currents on the Grand Line. One of 'em's called the Knock Up Stream." Bellamy looked back at the Strawhats, "I'm guessing you haven't heard of it? Ships that get caught in the current are blasted up high in the sky but only fall straight back to the ocean. A bunch of dumb sailors saw ships falling down from it, and imagined an island in the sky! Even crazy stuff like that has a rational explanation!" He continued to laugh.
Kimi sighed and looked at the ground, "I should have known…" She whispered. "Listen up," Bellamy looked at the trio, "The age where pirates dream is OVER! The city of gold? The Emerald City? The great treasure, One Piece? Fools with their eyes on dream treasure don't notice the REAL treasure all around them! Looking at dream-chasing idiots like you really makes my stomach turn!" He ran over and punch Luffy in the face, but to Kimi's surprise, Luffy didn't even block or fight back whatsoever.
The people in the bar started to throw things at him and the rest of them. "Luffy, please get up and fight!" Kimi cried begging down by Luffy's side. Luffy sat up, "Zoro, Kimi, we aren't going to fight." Kimi gasped at Luffy's statement. "Luffy, what? He'll hurt you, that guy is crazy." She looked at Bellamy who started to walk over to her and Zoro with an even crazier look in his eyes.
Bottles and chairs flew over at the three and Kimi did her best to avoid them but most of the bottles smashed into her exposed ankles cutting her legs and staining her pants. One bottle headed straight for her head and when she ducked it smashed into some of the bottles behind the bar. Kimi looked over at the bartender that hid behind the counter. "I am so sorry sir." She cried, a few tears escaping her eyes. When she looked back at the two boys, blood and bruises covered their faces. But they just stood there enduring the punches and bottles being thrown at them.
"Please, do something!" Kimi spoke softly looking at her friends.
"It's no use babe." The blue haired man from the resort laughed. "They know when they're up against someone they can't beat. They won't fight anyone they can't beat. It's pathetic really." He smirked at the young scientist.
Kimi bent down and picked up Luffy's fallen straw hat from the floor. She felt scared, tired, and embarrassed. Too much had happened in just one day and all Kimi wanted to do was head to the ship and take a nap. "Why are you two doing this?" She whispered.
Bellamy sat at the bar and chugged his ale. "On top of being weak, you have no pride! You won't accept any fight and yet your heads are full of dreams!" He wiped the drink from his face, "You all are worms." He laughed hysterically along with the entire bar. Bellamy got up from his seat, grabbing a bottle from the bar, and walked over to Luffy.
"I wanted to see how good of a pirate you were with that 30,000,000 Berri bounty and then you turned out to be a disappointment, not worthy of my interest. I've never seen two bigger cowards." He took a sip of the bottle and then spat it out at Luffy. Luffy continued to stand still facing the man. "They are eye sores." He then ran over and kicked Zoro in the face and threw him to the other side of the bar.
Kimi was about to run over to help the swordsman when a hand caught her wrist. "You need to ditch these so-called Pirates and come to a real crew babe." Bellamy took over her personal space.
Not wanting to go against Luffy's orders, Kimi snatched her hand away and glared at the man. "Never." Bellamy gave her a strange look and then ran over to Luffy and threw his head threw the window next to Zoro. Kimi ran and pushed past Bellamy and kneeled down at the two men. "Luffy, Zoro, please stop this. Let's go. We aren't going to find any information here." She cried still holding onto Luffy's straw hat.
"Woman, you aren't going to survive the new era with these losers, I'll buy you off them." The blue haired man snickered. "How much do you go for?"
That was it. Kimi looked down, furious at this point, and cloned herself. The clone walked over and pulled the man to the clone's mad face. The real Kimi stood up still looking down, "I am not something to be bought. And besides, I would never join this pathetic crew." The clone threw the man's collar back and disappeared. Bellamy laughed, "She's feisty and a devil fruit user apparently. Come on doll, it'll be fun!" He smirked eyeing Kimi's body.
"Fine then, get those two out of my sight while you still have your lives. Weaklings!" Kimi quickly clones herself twice and the two picked up each of the boys and dragged them out of the bar while the men inside laughed at her. Kimi held onto Luffy's hat and followed her clones, "And don't come back!" Some threw a bottle out the bar.
She followed down the road leading to the merry trying not to cry as she looked at all of the townspeople whispering at her. "Sky Island does exist!" Kimi stopped and look at the person who spoke. It was the man in the bar that Luffy had argued with earlier. "Why the long face nee-chan. Those two won that fight. And the tongue lashing you gave them was pretty impressive too." He took a bite of his pie and sipped on a bottle of rum. "You got some guts woman!" He laughed.
Zoro pushed away from Kimi's clone dragging him on the floor and stood up brushing himself off, Luffy did the same. "This 'New Era' they talk about is shit. The age where pirates dream is over?" He laughed even harder. Luffy walked over to Kimi and took his hat from her hands.
"PEOPLE'S DREAMS NEVER END!" The man slammed his bottle of rum on the ground. "AM I RIGHT?" He looked dead straight at Luffy. Kimi almost felt like the man was staring through his soul.
"Oi oi, hey nutcase, what the hell are ya screamin' about?" "What was that about people's dreams?" The townspeople laughed at the giant man but he obviously did not care and continued to laugh. "He's most likely drunk." Kimi whispered to no one in particular.
"Let them laugh, if you seek the Summit, you'll find fights your fists alone could never take you to. So follow it! Hahahaha!"