Hey guys! Sorry this took so long. I'm taking summer classes and I got caught up in studying and seeing my friends and hanging out. Enjoy!
"WHAT'S GOING ON!" Ussopp cried out.
"The ship's sailing straight up the surface of the water stream!" Sanji blankly pointed out.
"Yay this is fun! Go Merry! Take us to the Sky!" Luffy laughed.
"Hold on, it doesn't look like it's gonna be that easy!" Kimi stood on the wall of the kitchen. It was a weird feeling, but since the ship was tilted 90 degrees, straight up, it felt normal. "The hull is starting to come loose! At this rate, we will be thrown off the current and fall back down!" She examined the situation.
"What are we supposed to do, we can barely hold ourselves up!" Ussopp replied.
Just then the crew's attention turned to the Sea King from before falling down from the current, "That's what will happen if we don't do something!" Kimi yelled out.
The crew argued and screamed, and finally Nami yelled out the solution, "Unfurl the sails, right now! This is an ocean not just some column of water! And the wind that's blowing us up it was caused by the explosion of geothermal heat and steam! A vertically blowing air current!"
Kimi nodded confirming Nami's idea, "Someone grab the hull in line with the current!" Nami yelled out. The Merry rose out of the water and started to fly along the Knock-Up Stream.
"THE MERRY IS FLYING!" Luffy laughed "GO MERRY!"
Kimi closed her eyes as a bright white light that pierced through them but then felt her body covered in water and started to feel weak. "Wait, are we back in the water? I feel as weak like I do when I'm in the ocean." Suddenly, a roar of splashing water and the rocking of the Merry made Kimi fall to the side towards the edge of the stairs.
Breathing very heavily, she sat up and looked down at the deck to the rest of her friends. They all seemed to be soaked just like her and breathing just as hard as she was as well. "Damn. What the hell happened? Is everyone here?" Zoro called out.
Everyone continued to breathe in and out, except for their rubber captain. "Oi, look out! It's all white and cloudy!" He smiled from cheek to cheek.
"What is this place?" Kimi stood up and walked down the steps holding tightly to the railing. Everyone gathered on the side looking out at the clouds. "We're on top of the clouds?" Chopper screamed out. "How are we floating on them?" Nami asked aloud.
"Sure we can float on them!" Luffy answered back, not the answer Nami was looking for though. Some commotion occurred surrounding Ussopp and Chopper and Luffy as usual but Kimi decided to ignore them and lean over the railing.
"Kimi! What are you doing? Don't fall!" Nami threw her back from her collar. Kimi looked back at her and rubbed her neck, "I'm not trying to fall in. I believe that what this cloud we are floating in is like some type of sea or something. After all we are all soaking wet and I remember feeling weak right before we stopped moving. The same feeling I get when I am in the ocean due to my devil fruit." Kimi leaned over again looking once again at the clouds. They did in fact look like water.
"So this is like the sea of the sky or something?" Zoro added to Kimi's statement. Kimi nodded trying to pull herself back up but in the heat of the moment her hand slipped. As her hips were about to fall in, Zoro wrapped his arm around her falling waist and pulled her up in one swift motion.
Kimi pushed a hair behind her ear and smiled, "Thanks for that." Zoro simply grinned and walked off as Nami frowned. "Hey look, the log pose is still pointing up." She distracted Kimi's almost drowning situation.
Robin seemed to understand the situation. "We seem to be in the middle layer of the Cumuloregalis cloud." "Well how do we get up more?" Chopper ran over to the girls. "That I don't know." She smiled.
"For his first adventure in the sky, Captain Ussopp is going for a swim!" Ussopp had taken off his shirt, with the top of his overall unbutton leaning on the edge of the rail. Luffy and Chopper cheered him on.
"Oi, oi oi oi, don't do anything stupid. We still don't know the nature of this sea." Sanji attempted to stop the long nosed man but alas, it didn't work and Ussopp dived in.
Kimi looked down for a moment and thought about the situation. "Hey guys, we went up and through this sea right?" Everyone looked over at her and nodded. "Well um… do you think that it's possible there's not a bottom to the sea?" She looked over at them with concern all over her face.
Everyone ran to the side, "That idiot!" Zoro looked for a way to help Ussopp back up. But Luffy had the situation covered. He stretched his arm into the water. "Stretch your arm as long as you can!" Robin yelled to Luffy. "But I can't see the bottom!" Luffy cried back. "I'll handle it." Robin closed her eyes and used her fruit power to grow eyes on Luffy's arm to find Ussopp.
After a moment or two, "I see him!" Robin said with her eyes still closed. "Okay I got him. Pull him up!" She smiled and opened her eyes. Luffy pulled up Ussopp but as he did, monsters started to arrive from the sea. "They want to eat Ussopp!" Luffy screamed and threw him on the deck.
Zoro sprung into action, "You don't have to be afraid of these creatures." He jumped off the ship and attacked the octopus creature. Sanji did the same attacking another creature coming from the opposite side.
"Man…this place…sure takes the breath out of you…" Zoro huffed. "What is this thing? It doesn't even look like a fish." Sanji kicked the unconscious fish off of the side. "So we really should think of this more as an ocean than a cloud with all of these creatures." Robin nodded.
Everyone ignored their situation and looked over at the screaming Ussopp. "For the love of. What is it now, Ussopp!" Sanji clenched his fists. "Sky Island scary… Sky Island scary… Sky Island scary… Sky Island scary… Sky Island scary… Sky Island scary… Sky Island scary…" Was all he could say.
Kimi ignored the rest of the group and headed to the side with Chopper. He was on the broken wing of the Merry looking through binoculars. "What are you looking at Chopper?" Kimi smiled and leaned on her back on the side of the railing. Her body faced the rest of the group.
"Look! I see a ship and a person and-" suddenly Chopper started to scream frantically. "Hey what's wrong?" Kimi turned to the little reindeer. He fell backwards, but Kimi luckily caught him, as the binoculars fell to the ground.
"Chopper, you see a ship? Is there a ship over there?" Sanji turned his attention to Kimi and Chopper. Chopper hopped out of Kimi's arms and onto the side, "NO! I mean there was but now-" He yelled, Kimi picked up the binoculars and searched where Chopper had been looking.
As she cleared up the vision in the device she saw a weird masked man floating right towards her. She screamed and ducked down dropping the binoculars once more. "Oi, Kimi-san is everything-" Sanji started to asked but her scream was answered as the masked man hopped over the Merry. "Oi hold it! What do you want!" Sanji yelled out.
"I shall reject you!" The man screamed out.
"He wants a fight!"
"Fine by me!" Sanji and Zoro got ready. But it was no use. The man was too fast and kicked Sanji square in the face along with Zoro. Kimi followed the man and watched him spin in the air and then kick Luffy in the face too.
The masked man jumped into the air and then he started to point his bazooka gun at the ship, "Guys, he's going to shoot the ship!" Kimi stood up pointing.
"That's enough!" An unknown voice yelled and then attacked the man. The masked guy fell into the cloud sea and then an older man in metal armor stood on the side of the Merry. "I am the Knight of the Sky." He stated.
"What is going on here! Where did that guy go?" Nami yelled out. "What's wrong with you guys? All three of you together couldn't handle him!"
"Thank you for saving us!" Chopper bowed to the Knight of the Sky. "No need to thank me. This is a service." He stated.
"Dammit. I'm disappointed." Sanji huffed. "Somehow, my body…won't move that well." The three boys breathed in an out.
"It must be because the air is so thin." Kimi stated. "Are you all blue sea dwellers?" The Knight turned Nami. "Blue Sea dwellers? What do you mean?" She replied.
"'Blue sea dwellers' is the general term for those who live beneath the clouds. So I presume that you traveled up from the Blue Sea." The knight explained "Yea that is right!" Luffy nodded.
"This is the white sea, 7,000 meters above your Blue Sea. Furthermore, above this sea is the White-White Sea, 10,000 meters above your own. Ordinary Blue Sea dwellers bodies cannot handle the air."
"Yosh, I think I'm getting used to it!" Luffy started to hit his chest. "Yea I think I'm getting better too." Zoro nodded.
"No, that is not possible! But I'm sure you have many question for me, but we must first talk business." The Knight sat down. "I am a mercenary and this is a sea of many dangers. Since you know not the battle of the sky, you will be easy targets for the guerillas or the skyfish. One whistle and I will rescue you for a price of 5,000,000 extols." He finished.
Everyone leaned their heads in confusement. "What are you talking about Ossan?" Luffy wondered aloud.
The Sky Knight started to wave his arms in the air. "You fool! It's a small price to pay! I will not take one extol less. I have to make a living, you know!"
"What do you mean by extol and what is this whistle thing you are talking about?" Sanji asked aggravated at the lecture the man gave the crew.
"You mean you did not come by way of the High West? But you must have at least stopped by one or two islands!" He yelled again.
"Ossan," Luffy had a mad face, "What in the world are you talking about?"
"Hold on! You mean there are other ways to get to this sky sea? And do you mean there's more than one Sky Island?" Nami calmed the heating argument. "We rode up the knock-up stream to get here." Robin stated as well.
"Riding that monstrous current? To think there are still souls brave enough to dare to do that…" The sky knight laughed to himself.
"I knew this wasn't a normal route! I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA DIE!" Nami ran over and shook poor Luffy. "IF WE'D CATHERED MORE INFORMATION WE WOULD'VE HAD AN EASIER TRIP!"
"Have you lost any of your crew?" The knight asked.
Luffy looked over at him even though Nami continued to hold him by the collar. "No we all made it."
"The other routes would not have been so merciful. If you had brought 100 people, it would be a gamble as to how many would survive. But by using the Knock-Up stream, either you all die or you all survive. There are few left willing to risk losing everything. Especially in recent years, I have great respect for your brace and trustworthy navigators."
Ussopp miraculously stood from his once fetal position. "Well, it was the course I picked, after all!" He smugly lied. "At the time, these guys were crying and had given up on their lives, but I told them: I'm the navigator!" Nami pulled his face in annoyed by the big fat liar.
"One whistle means blowing sharply into this." The knight threw a small silver whistle towards Nami. "I will descend from Heaven itself to lend you aid. I normally ask 5,000,000 extol for future visits, but I shall give you one whistle as a present." He started to walk to the edge. It was then that Kimi noticed a strange pink and black polka-dotted bird behind him.
"But wait, we don't even know your name!" Nami picked the whistle up off the floor.
"I am the knight of the sky, Gan Fall! And this is my partner Pierre!" The bird cawed. "I should have mentioned that my partner, Pierre is a bird who has eaten and gained the ability of the Uma Uma fruit and can transform into a winged horse!" The bird suddenly transformed into a Pegasus type of horse. The man hopped on his back, but the whole picture just looked silly. The bird/horse still had his polka-dots and his weird face.
"Brave souls, may luck be with you!" The knight then left into the sky.
"Well that was strange." Sanji bluntly stated.
"In the end…he didn't really tell us much." Robin walked over to the edge.
"How are we gonna get out of here?" Zoro asked.
"Yosh! I'll ask the Ossan!" Luffy took the whistle and attempted to blow into it, but he was stopped by Nami and Ussopp. "That's only to ask for help in an emergency!" Nami yelled. "What if that weirdo in the mask shows up again!" Ussopp cried.
"Anyway, we should move the ship somewhere." Zoro stated to crew that did not attack the captain.
Chopper looked over the side of the Merry, "Hey look over there at those weird clouds!" Robin walked over to the creature, "It looks like some kind of waterfall." "
Yosh, that's that then. We will take the Merry over there." Zoro walked off to his station.
The Merry started to move towards the waterfall looking area and the crew stood in silence out on the deck. "Wait! Stop, stop, stop! There are clouds that are blocking our way!" Nami ordered Zoro who was steering the ship.
"What do we do Nami?" Ussopp cried. Kimi looked at the strange thick clouds, the fact that you couldn't see anything through them unlike some of the other clouds that surrounded them made Kimi think that it would be really dangerous for the Merry to sail through it.
"Yosh! I'll touch them and see!" Luffy stretched out his hand to touch the grey cloud, but his hand simply bounced back right as he touched it. His eyes started to sparkle and quickly Luffy ended up on the top of the cloud bouncing around like it was a trampoline. "Look everyone! I'm bouncing, not sinking!" He laughed bouncing on top of the cloud.
"What a strange phonemon." Nami gasped.
"Quite mysterious indeed." Robin chimed in.
"Very interesting though." Kimi smiled.
Before they knew it, Chopper and Ussopp joined Luffy bouncing on the top of the cloud.
"This means we can't take the ship through and place where these clouds are though Nami-san." Kimi thought aloud. "Hey Luffy! Try to find another route for the Merry to travel."
Luffy nodded at the blue haired girl and searched, "Hey there's a huge gate underneath that fall-looking thing!" The crew navigated through the clouds out to the big giant gate with the waterfall behind it.
"Ah look! Those clouds that looked like a waterfall really are a fall! It's flowing over that new type of cloud we just saw." Nami smiled.
"Look it's called Heaven's Gate! Is this a joke! Are we going to die!" Ussopp cried.
Zoro snickered, "Or what if we are already dead."
"Oh, that would certainly account for all the weird stuff here." Sanji included in with Zoro to torment the frightened Ussopp. "WE ARE DEAD!" Chopper cried and Kimi laughed at the joke the two had played on the gullible members of the crew.
As they passed through the gate an old woman appeared from two doors on the side and took pictures of the crew. "Look on her back! She has w-wings!" Chopper cried out and clung to Kimi's leg.
"So that's a real angel! She looks like a prune!" Luffy yelled out.
"I am the appointed lookout of Heaven's Gate, Amazon." The woman softly spoke. "Sightseeing? Or Fighting?" She asked.
"S-sightseeing would be closer, I guess…" Nami started but of course Zoro interrupted. "What do you mean by fighting?"
"It doesn't matter which. Just pay the immigration fee, 1,000,000,000 extols per person and be on your way. That's the law." She responded.
"We are only going in. Why does it cost that much to enter?" Ussopp sweat dropped. "Excuse me, but if we didn't have enough money-" Nami started.
"You can pass. Or you can also not pass. I am neither a guardian nor a warrior. I only listen to your will." She responded.
"Granny! We are going to sky island!" Luffy yelled out.
"Fine, I see. Eight of you then."
"But um, how exactly do we get there?" Luffy asked but his answer quickly came. Two huge claws grabbed the broken wings of the Merry and started to race up the waterfall. Kimi grabbed hold onto the railing once more as the huge shrimp carried the Merry up the spiral waterfall to the bright light in the sky.
"Look! It's Sky Island!" Luffy yelled out. Kimi regained her composure and looked out at the island her captain pointed to. "That ship that fell on us really did come from here! They saw this same sight 200 years ago!" Nami smiled. The scientist couldn't believe what was happening. It was all too amazing and so intriguing.
As the Merry landed on the edge of the island, Kimi noted that the ground of the Island was a cloud but her deep thought ended when Luffy ran off the ship to explore. As usual, Kimi thought and giggled as Ussopp fell into the shallow water and pretended to drown.
"I wanna explore too!" Chopper jumped off. "I think I'm going to change!" Nami ran off. "Oh, Nami-san! Would you bring me my grey v-neck shirt on my bed please! Thank you!" Kimi smiled. Nami turned back around. "You're already wearing a black turtle neck…you are so boring." She sweat dropped and then ran back off.
Kimi just smiled and pulled out her notebook writing down all her observations of the island.
"Man, this scenery is a real eye opener. It's like a dream." Kimi continued to write pretending not to hear Zoro talking to her and Sanji. "Yea, you got that right and the way they're enjoying themselves…you just can't help it." Sanji walked to the front of the Merry taking off his shoes and placing them near the railing. Kimi then heard a loud whooping noise and then realized that Sanji had jumped off the ship just as Luffy and the others had.
This time, Sanji's random action made Kimi loose it completely. She had never laughed as hard in her life as she was now; she even had to hold her stomach in pain dropping her notebook in the process as well. Zoro just tilted his head at her, "Oi, what is so funny? That crap cook fall on his face or something?" He just stood there confused until she stopped and gathered her notebook back in her arms. "That was just so unexpected. That's all." She giggled again and looked out at everyone on the island.
"OW OW OW OW! I'M SORRY!" Kimi turned around and noticed Nami had fallen to the ground and the south bird that led the crew to the area of the knock-up stream fluttered passed Kimi. "We brought the Southbird with us." Nami pouted. "We forgot to release him."
"It looks like people live here too. But he can probably take care of himself. He is a bird and there are other birds here as well." Zoro focused on Kimi instead of the girl he was really talking too.
Kimi felt something hit her back and she turned around to see her grey shirt on the ground. "Ah, thank you so much Nami!" She smiled and pulled it over her black sleeveless turtle neck. "There are so many things that are hard to believe here. But at least we know we've arrived at Sky Island." Nami had put on a very revealing bathing-suit top and a pair of brown cargo pants. Robin appeared besides here with a new outfit on as well. A gold tank top and purple Capri's with a very stylish arm band on her left bicep.
'I can only imagine who is going to flip out when he sees Nami and Robin in their revealing tops.' Kimi thought as she second guessed her own outfit. Nami jumped off as well as Robin afterwards.
The scientist took a deep breath and then sighed. She closed her book and placed the pen behind her ear, "Are you going to explore the area as well?" Kimi looked back at the swordsman as she was about to jump off the side like the others. "Hm? Yea, I'll be there is a bit." He nodded sitting on the railing.
"It's so exciting! The smell of adventure. I wonder what types of things we will discover." Kimi jumped off the ship and landed in the cloud. It was so soft and fluffy even as she stood in the water with her sandals on. Holding onto her notebook tightly, she ran to the others on the shore.
"Kimi-Chwan! Here is a sky island flower for you my love!" Sanji ran up and placed the flower in the top of her bun. "Oh, thank you Sanji-san!" Kimi awkwardly smiled as he ran passed her screaming for Nami. "Look at all of this! It's amazing!" Kimi sat down talking to Robin who was only a couple of steps away.
"It is incredible. Wonderful indeed." Robin turned her body to the girl smiling with a matching flower also in her hair.
"But how do you get wet in a sea of clouds?" Zoro mumbled impatiently walking next to Kimi's left. Kimi opened her notebook scribbling away at the pages. "I'm not exactly sure, Zoro-san, but I'll try to understand…" She squinted trying to write down as many hypotheses as she could think of.
"What? Ah, perfect!" Kimi could see Zoro leaning down in the corner of her eye and picking up something white. When she stopped writing she noticed the thing in his hand, or rather the creature. "Um, Zoro-san…that's um…" She pointed at it. When he finally noticed the creature he dropped it in shock and the white fox looking creature ran into Kimi's lap. He leaned down noticing the animal. "What is that? A fox?"
Kimi was about to answer when a beautiful noise came from their far left. Zoro stood and noticed a person in the distance, "Oi, there is some over there."
"Oh no! Is it that guerilla from earlier?" Ussopp screamed and Zoro flipped out a small portion of his sword. Kimi stood up with the small white animal in her arms and her notebook in her left hand.
"No wait. It's an…angle!" Sanji gasped.
Kimi readjusted her eyes and noticed a young pale blonde girl with wings on her back. She stopped playing her harp and looked at the crew. "Heso." She smiled softly.
"Heso?"
"What's heso mean?" Chopper asked the questioning crew.
"Suu, come here." She smiled looking at Kimi. The white fur ball jumped from Kimi's arms and ran up to the girl. "Are you all from the blue sea?" She asked meeting Suu halfway.
"Yea, we came up from down there." Luffy responded. "Do you live here?"
"Yes, I do. Welcome to Skypiea's Angel Beach. Would you like to drink that?" She pointed to the giant fruit looking object in Luffy's arms. "Yea." He handed it to the angel. "The top of a conasshu is as hard as steel. You can't bite it, so from the underside…" She cut the bottom of the fruit and put a straw in it and gave it back to the captain. "IT'S SOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOD!" Luffy raved and Ussopp also agreed with him.
"My name is Conis, this is Suu a cloudfox. Should you need anything, please let me be of service." The girl picked up her pet and introduced herself to the crew.
"There is a lot we'd like to ask you, this place is just full of mysteries for us." Nami walked up. "Of course, just ask me anything."
Zoro turned over his shoulder and interrupted the two. "Oi, something's coming."
"Ah, my father." Conis nodded, "Conis-san, heso!" the man yelled in the distance. "Yes, heso father!"
"Er…what're you guys talking about?" Luffy sweat dropped.
"What is that thing he is riding?" Nami asked. "Ah, you mean the Waver?" Kimi walked over to the girls. "What is a waver?" She asked.
"Yes, I will stop now!" The man yelled out but ended up crashing on the beach. "Is everyone alright?" The man asked.
"WHAT ABOUT YOU!" Zoro yelled back at him.
"That's what Norland wrote about in his diary-a ship that sails without wind!" Nami thought aloud.
"Are these your friends, Conis-san?"
"Yes, we just met. They came from the Blue Sea!" Conis and her father spoke to each other. "I see, that must have been a difficult journey. This is the white-white sea. I am sorry. I haven't introduced myself. My name is Pagaya. I'm sorry." "Father, did you catch any fish?" "Yes, a good catch. Oh yes, would you care to stop by my house? I'll treat you to a little of the happiness of the sky." Pagaya asked the crew.
"Yea! Let's go! Let's go!"
"Sky Island cuisine!" Sanji's ears perked up. "Will you let me help you prepare it?"
Nami walked over and examined the waver. "Wait a minute can you answer this? This…doesn't have a sail to catch wind…and you weren't rowing it…how was it riding on the sea?"
"Oh you don't know about Dials?" Conis tilted her head.
But the conversation turned to Luffy who took off with the waver so quick that no one could even tell him to get off. Eventually the speed of the waver sent Luffy flying in the air and in the White-white sea.
"Oh no! Is he alright?" Conis gasped. "I'm sorry for lending him my Waver!"
No one in the crew moved. "Come to think of it, what happens to people with abilities in this sea?" Sanji asked what everyone was thinking to themselves. "Oh yea, this sea is different. Maybe he can handle it." Zoro crossed his arms watching Luffy sink into the water. "He sank. No good, eh?" Zoro then replied once Luffy sank completely underneath. Zoro and Sanji then took off to save their drowning captain.
"Well at least the rest of us know that we have the same effects in this sea as in the Blue sea." Kimi nodded to Chopper and Robin at this valuable information.
Nami had already gotten her hands on the waver and began to ride it like a pro. "Nami-san! You're the greatest!" "Oh my I can hardly believe it! It usually takes about ten years to learn how to ride it and she only took ten seconds!" Pagaya gasped.
Mad that she could ride the waver better than him, Luffy yelled at Nami, "Oi we are going to the Ossan's house. Get off now!" Sanji kicked him in the head.
"Ojisan, can I ride on it a little longer?" Nami yelled out. "Yes! Take care!"
The rest of the crew left Nami on the beach and followed Conis and her father up a white giant stair case towards their house on a section of the island cloud clusters.
Sanji and Pagaya prepared their lunch for the rest of the crew while the other's and Conis sat in their living room. "Conis, you mentioned something about a Dial. Would you tell us more?" Kimi sat next to Zoro on the white couch made out of clouds. She opened her notebook and pen in hand.
"Of course, well then how should I explain?" Conis walked over towards her. "Huh? What is this? You have seashells here?" Luffy picked up a shell off of a countertop.
"Yes, please try saying something into it." Luffy thought for a moment and then spoke, "Ussopp stinkssssssss!" Conis laughed, "Now try pressing the apex of the shell." She pointed.
"What's an apex?" Ussopp walked over and pressed the top of the shell. "It means highest point brainiac." Just then the shell spoke out 'Ussopp stinkssss! Now try pressing the apex of the shell.' In Luffy's and in Conis's voice.
"Well that's interesting. It recorded the sound." Zoro then noticed Kimi scribbling frantically in her book.
"Is that shell a Dial?" Robin asked. "Yes, this is a Tone Dial. It is able to record and replay any sound. It is one of the shells of the White-White Sea."
"I don't see how that could move the Waver then." Robin crossed her arms still not convinced. Conis ran over to another counter and picked up a purple Shell. "Yes, the propulsion of the Waver is this one. This one isn't very large, but the principle is the same as the Tone Dial." She walked over to Luffy and Ussopp out on the porch and raised the shell to a wind chime on the wall. The Shell then started to blow wind to the wind chime. "So wind comes out of that one!" Ussopp declared.
"It sucks in wind and releases it freely. The capacity varies depending on the size, but by putting this on the aft of a ship, it can move light ships."
"Ah, and if you put one of those on a small boat you then get the waver!" Kimi looked up from writing. Conis nodded her head and walked over to Luffy and Ussopp. Kimi and the other's listened as Conis explained that even though the crew had found a waver from the wreckage of the 200 year-old ship it would most likely still work as long as the shell was not broken.
"These Dials are so fascinating!" Kimi smiled and looked up from her book. "I bet there are other kinds as well." She then pointed to a shell on a stick in the middle of a coffee table. "Is this one too Conis?" Kimi pointed examining it a little closer.
"Yes, that is a lamp dial." Chopper pressed the shell and it started to glow. He laughed and cheered at the sight of it. "There is also one which stores fire, the Flame dial. And one which stores smells and aromas, the flavor dial. And still another which reflects images, the vision dial. There are many different kinds!" She explained. "They are an integral part of our livelihood in the sky. So, Skypedia's culture has evolved with the Dials' energy."
Kimi scribbled all that Conis had explained but her train of thought was interrupted when a snore came from her side. She looked up and giggled as Zoro had fallen asleep in no time at all but then shook her head and continued to write down.
"Alright! It is all ready! A full-course sky island special catch with fruit!" Sanji yelled out from the kitchen.
Robin and Chopper stood up and followed Luffy and Ussopp (they had ran into the room). Kimi also stood but then realized she still heard snoring behind her. "Oi, Zoro-san…" She tapped his shoulder. Zoro stopped snoring and opened his left eye. Kimi smiled. "The food is ready." And she followed the others into the room.
Zoro stretched his arms and legs out and then opened both eyes. He sat there for a moment and watched Kimi walk off. Even though she was not dressed like the other two female members of the crew, there was something very attractive about the fact that she did not flaunt her goods. He then noticed the love-cook watching him, watching Kimi. Sanji gave Zoro an evil death glare and kept watching him as Zoro stood up and walked to the kitchen.
As the group started to eat Sanji noticed something, "Oi. Where did Nami go? I can't see her anywhere." "She probably went exploring." Luffy brushed off his comment.
"Father, will she be okay?" Conis asked worriedly. "Yes, Conis-san…I also feel a bit unsettled."
"What? What's wrong?" Luffy asked chewing on a piece of meat.
"Here in Skypiea, there is a place where you must never, ever set foot no matter the circumstances. That place is adjacent to this island and could easily be reached with the Waver."
"Never set foot on…what does that mean?" Ussopp wondered.
"It is sacred ground we call that land, the land where God resides, Upper Yard." Conis looked down and folded her arms one on top of the other.
"By 'God', you mean the God?" Chopper asked. "God lives on sky island?" She nodded, "Yes. Because Skypiea is God's land, it is ruled by the almighty God Enel. God Enel knows everything that goes on in this world. He watches over us, always."
"W-what? Always?" Ussopp started to freak out. "Even now?" Luffy wondered. "Yes. Of course!" "Eh! He's watching over us at this very moment?" Chopper added. "Hm. God, eh?" Zoro sighed not bothered in the least bit. Chopper looked over at him, "Zoro, you don't believe in God?"
"Dunno. I don't care whether God exists or not. It's never mattered to me one bit. Well, not that I have anything against anyone who wants to believe."
Kimi moved Zoro's conversation away, "So Conis-chan, have you ever seen this God, Enel, was it?" She shook her head and hands, "No I have never seen him. We cannot set foot on Upper Yard. Ever…"
Luffy suddenly started to have glitter in his eyes, "A place we must never, ever set foot, huh?" Ussopp started to shake his captain. "Oi Luffy, what the hell are you thinking right now? Listen to what she is saying! 'Must never set foot on' means you ABSOLUTELY must not go there, Luffy!" But the daredevil captain still continued to laugh and sparkle his eyes.
'He definitely wants to go there…' The entire crew thought.
"So, what are the consequences' of entering this forbidden Upper Yard?" Robin sipped on her wine.
"You will not return alive, we believe." Pagaya replied. "Y-you're worried about Nami-san, aren't you? It's best if she does not get too close to Upper Yard." Sanji ran to the balcony. "NAMI-SWANNNNNNN! WE ARE COMING TO GET YOU! STAY THERE!" he looked back and Luffy nodded, "Hurry up and stop eating you buffoon!" Sanji yelled running to the door. "What if something happens to Nami-san while you're standing around worrying about eating! Forget the food! We'll be back soon anyway. Conis-chan, tell us how to get there."
Conis groaned, "You don't even know if she is there or not. Incurring the wrath of God Enel is a terrible thing."
"It doesn't matter, Nami-san is most likely out exploring and if that island is close by she is probably there!" Sanji ran out. The rest of the crew followed as well.
Everyone and Conis included gathered onto the Merry. "Alright! Set sail to the place we should never ever set foot on!" Luffy climbed up the Merry head pointing to the sky.