Yay! Next one is up only because I had over written for the last chapter. Won't make any promises about the next one coming soon!
"I'm sorry, but there is a headwind right now! With this wind, it would take a considerable amount of time to reach upper yard! I'm sorry." Pagaya called out on the shore. "It wouldn't take as long if your ship were one powered by Dial energy though."
Kimi thought and jotted down her idea in the book and then turned to Conis. "By any random chance would you all have a Dial that goes on a ship like this?" She shook her head, "Personally, no. But they may have them in the market." Kimi nodded but her thought then focused to Luffy attempting to make a getaway in the broken waver. However, it ended up with Zoro having to retrieve a drowning captain.
Pagaya looked at the broken waver. "So this is your old waver?" He wiggled the squeaky steering wheel. "It is really worn out. If you wouldn't mind, may I take a look at it? If it can, I shall fix it for you. I am a Dial ship engineer." This really caught Kimi's attention and she hopped off the Merry and ran to Pagaya.
"How does this work? Do you have to take it all a part?" She opened her notebook and looked up at Conis's father. Luffy ran over too asking the same questions. "Can you fix is Ossan?" He smiled his usual ear to ear smile. But their conversation would have to wait, because just then a group of people started to walk down the stair case towards the crew on the beach.
"Ossan, who're they?" Luffy adjusted his hat.
"Suspicious-looking ship! Stop right there!" Kimi put on her glasses and blinked a couple of times. "Are they?" She wondered. "Why're they all crawling toward us like that?" Sanji asked.
"Troops, Halt!" The man in front of the crawling men yelled from below. They stood and put two fingers on top of their heads making them look like Conis's and Pagaya's antennas. "Heso!" They all replied. "You are the eight illegal entrants from the Blue Sea, correct?" The leader had a blue cape and a weird object on his back that made him stand out from the others. "We are here to bestow Heaven's judgment upon you!"
"Illegal Immigrants? What does that mean?" Luffy turned and faced Kimi. She noticed that Conis and Pagaya started to freak out, "I-is that true?"
"There's no use denying it. The Heaven's gate lookout, Amazon, has sent us these photos, take with her Vision Dial." The Leader of the group pulled out a set of photos and the one on top had a picture of Luffy on it.
"There must be some mistake, Captain McKinley! They are not bad people!" Pagaya tried to convince the man. "What's he calling us illegal entrants for?" Sanji walked up behind Luffy and Kimi. "Perhaps he's talking about the 1,000,000,000 immigration fee we were each supposed to pay. We certainly didn't pay it." Robin declared.
"B-but, that old woman said we could pass without paying!" "She did!" Chopper and Ussopp persuaded the leader.
"Please no excuses. Just accept your guilt. However, there is no need to worry. Illegal entry is a minor, Class-11 crime punishable by Heaven's Judgment. Once you have received your punishment, you will be returned to the status of peaceful tourists. "
Sanji huffed, "Well why didn't you tell us earlier. I'm still not happy about it, but what's this punishment?"
"It's a simple solution, pay 10 times the immigration fee. If you pay the fee immediately, your crime will be written straight off. So that's 80,000,000,000 for all eight of you. I believe 10,000 Extol is equal to 1 Berri. So for you all it would be 8,000,000."
Sanji didn't like the sound of that, "That is too much! I could buy tons of rice with that! Why do we have to pay such a ridiculous amount after risking our lives to get up here? It's unacceptable!"
"What are you saying? You should have just paid the original 800,000 immigration fee at the gate. Let me warn you that we, the White Berets, act under direct order from the priests. Refusal will increase the severity of your punishment."
Sanji didn't care; he pulled Kimi and Luffy into a circle with the rest of the crew. "I'm worried that something might happen to Nami-san if we don't find her soon. She could be crying her little eyes out somewhere at this very moment!" "Alright! Let's go searching for Nami!" The strong head captain declared.
"Oi, oi! Luffy," Ussopp ran over to Luffy and then turned to the White Berets. "Well, if Nami's only out for a little walk, she should be back soon." He lied crossing his arms. "Nami not out-" Chopper went to correct him but Ussopp ran back over and shut his mouth. "Don't you see, Luffy's only using Nami as an excuse to go out and explore. We just have to ignore him into not going!"
"He is set on going." Kimi nodded and Robin and Zoro nodded as well. "Yea he is."
"Listen guys," Ussopp grouped everyone but Luffy together, "We won't get into any more trouble than we're already in and wait until Nami comes back. Besides, Nami's probably got 8,000,000 Berri lying around she could lend us!"
"Hey what are you guys discussing over there. That reminds me…if an illegal entrant cannot be found then they will be treated as an escaped criminal." The Leader of the white berets yelled out. "W-w-wait! Wait a sec! Then we can pay you the full amount! You will find that we are reasonable people. Just take it easy and wait!" He gave a thumbs up to the man. "Everyone, just chill out for a second and hang out until Nami comes back!" Ussopp commanded taking complete control of the situation.
Kimi started to yawn and stretch out her arms. "Kimi and Robin-chan. Would you lovely ladies join me for some tea?" Sanji patted the girls backs. "Yes please." Robin smirked and Kimi did the same. "I guess I could let my notebook take a breather for a little bit since we are going to wait around anyways." She tucked her pen in the spine of the book and walked with Sanji towards the pavilion area.
The three made their way towards the shaded area and both Kimi and Robin sat down next to each other in the soft cloudy chairs. "These seats are so comfortable!" Kimi sighed placing her notebook on the stand table next to the two.
"Here you are ladies." Sanji placed two hot cups in the middle of the same table. "Thank you Sanji-san." Both Kimi and Robin thanked. Robin took her cup and then examined Kimi's notebook. "Kimi, would you mind if I read your notes? I would like to know what types of things you have examined on the island."
Kimi felt hesitant at first. After all, the only other person that ever looked at her notes was her sister when she would take the notes Kimi had worked on for the government. "Um, yea…" She looked down and turned her head to Sanji that sat in the next chair next to her. Robin noticed the hesitance in Kimi's body language, but she nodded it off and took the book flipping through the pages. Kimi sighed and closed her eyes. The chair was so soft, and after this long morning she then realized the extreme exhaustion that overwhelmed her body. She ignored the commotion going on in the background and rested her eyes.
"THAT'S TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE!" Kimi sat up after she heard Nami screech and then a booming sound afterwards. "Hey, what happened?" She looked over at Robin.
She turned and faced the 20 year-old girl. "Nami has hit the Leader of the White Berets." Kimi stretched her arms again and then stood up. Her notebook flashed in her eyes. "Here is your book back. You noticed a great deal of information. It was almost like I was examining archeologist notes." She smiled at Kimi.
Kimi took the book from Robins hands and stood in shock as she followed Sanji out of the pavilion. 'No one has ever complimented me on my notes.' She thought and tried to hold back her tears at the memory she flashed back to.
"You are such an idiot! Anyone that only goes to school until they are 8 years old can never do anything in the world productive." Kimi's sister threw her notes in the air. Kimi held her head in her hands tucked in a ball in the corner of the lab. "Father! Make her stop! Please!" She cried out as her sisters heels clicked away. "You will never make it in the world Kimi. The only thing you are good for is making school grade volcano projects."
Kimi opened her eyes and then cloned herself to stop her sister from walking away. "No I'm not! I'm the one doing your project! Why do you have to treat me this badly? Please stop treating me this way-" But her sisters anger took over. She ran over to the real Kimi and pulled her to her face by the collar of Kimi's shirt. "Don't you ever talk that way to me again you stupid girl! You're notes make no sense! Go back to school and learn how to write properly!" Kimi felt herself being thrown back into the wall.
She slid down and landed on her bum sitting with her legs tucked. "I…I can't- I can't go back. You know they won't let me." She looked up, but her sister was already walking away. "Fix this shit." Was all her sister said as she walked away.
Kimi snapped out of the memory by Luffy calling out her name. "Oi Kimi! You coming out from there?" He laughed. "Luffy! This isn't good! That guy is out cold!" Ussopp yelled back.
Kimi shook her head and took a deep breath. She ran over to the group. "This is not good. This is probably a class 5 crime now." Conis seemed very upset.
"Class 5 doesn't sound too bad."
"It is, it's cloud drifting and it is a death sentence!" Conis replied to Luffy. "Cloud-drifting is when a ship is set upon a piece of Sky Cloud. It drifts through the sky endlessly, until everyone on board has perished!"
"Ah, I see. So that's how that ship fell out of a clear sky." Robin recalled the ship from yesterday. "What do you mean, Robin?" Ussopp asked nervously. "That galleon that fell on us from the sky, the Saint Bliss, perhaps that ship suffered the same fate 200 years ago. "
"Hey you punks!" Everyone's attention turned to the rest of the White Berets. "Do you have any idea what you've done to the Captain!" Nami walked ahead, "Sorry about that. It was just an unintentional reflex! An accident really!" She tried to play it off with her cuteness. Pagaya tried to also distract the men. "I'm sorry, but shouldn't we try to take care of the Captain. We can take him to my home to treat him!" The men agreed and picked their leader up. "The eight of you stay there and don't move! Understand!" One of the men yelled out.
The White Berets did their weird crawl to the staircase. Conis stayed for a second until the group was out of sight. "I know that you are not bad people. So please go back home!" Then she ran off in the same direction.
Everyone stood their silently trying to decipher what she'd meant. "She's right. I saw it with my own eyes. An island filled with terrifying people!" Nami faced the others. "Oh so you did go to the island." Zoro replied. Luffy started to sparkle again, "The place we must never, ever set foot?" Ussopp quickly covered his ears.
"I'm not sure if they're Gods or Guerillas, but I am sure they're nothing but trouble! We are leaving right now! Besides we don't want to cause any more trouble for Pagaya and Conis. We don't' want them to think that they are our accomplices. " Nami commanded. Kimi held her notebook close to her chest. That memory of her sister and her notes hung over her head. 'I want to take more notes. We just got here. I want to learn more…' She sighed not wanting to revolt against Nami's wishes. However, she and the others headed onto the ship waiting to leave the Legendary Island that they worked so hard to get to.
Kimi continued to hold onto her book as she sat down on the base of the stairs on the deck. "Kimi-san? Are you alright?" Sanji looked down on the girl. She just nodded, "Yea, I just wish we didn't have to leave…" She lied and pushed her loose hair behind her ear. In doing so, she noticed Robin standing on the side looking down on the shore. 'Did someone really think I'm good enough?' She thought and placed her book on the steps and walked over to the women.
Just as she was about to confront Robin her attention directed to Luffy and Nami arguing with the now conscious White Beret Leader. "At any rate, for repeatedly directing abusive language towards us, and for the obstruction of a public servant these Class 5 criminals are sentenced to cloud-drifting! AREST THEM!" He yelled out and the men behind him pointed arrows at the two. When they shot them a thick blue cloud appeared from the path of each arrow and suddenly the men jumped on them and rode the clouds. With ease, Luffy defeated the group and shocked Conis and her father with his devil fruit ability.
"You fools! There's no going back now! You should have just obediently followed our orders. The White Berets are the most gentle and understanding of all the guardians in Godland. But they will not be so forgiving. Beg and plead all you want, the priests of Upper Yard will be the ones to judge you! Heso!" The leader and his men then crawled back from their defeated positions.
Everyone jumped down off the ship and towards Luffy. "That women told us we could pass. Now we're here and they're calling it illegal entry?" Nami complained. "And we won't mention the part where we would've gone through even if she said we couldn't." Ussopp added. "Nevertheless, this is certainly a terrible predicament. Now that you are class 2 criminals we cannot be of any help!" Pagaya yelled from across the shore. "It's not bad, we are used to being wanted criminals anyways." Luffy smiled.
Nami and Luffy started to argue about going to Upper Yard and at the end of the argument Nami still claimed that they should leave Sky Island. Ussopp then stated a very valuable point. "Hey is there any safe way to get back to the Blue Sea? We worried so much about getting here that we forgot about getting down. " He asked Conis. She just bowed her head. "I can't really call it safe given your situation, but there is a way. You must go to the edge of the cloud, Cloud End. It lies at the far East side of the cloud but to get there you will first have to descend to the White Sea."
"It doesn't matter where we go. Those guys will find us no matter what." Nami started to push the crew towards the ship once more. Kimi walked in silence upset about leaving the amazing island. "Oh yea, I forgot! Ossan! Can we take the rest of the food you gave us earlier?" Luffy ran to Pagaya. "What oh yes of course!" He nodded. "Yay! Sanji come on let's get the food!" Luffy ran to the staircase that led to Pagaya's home.
Ussopp smiled, "In that case, there's something I've been meaning to ask. Ossan, you're an engineer, right? Can I bum some ship-repair materials off of you?" Pagaya agreed once again. "Oi, Kimiko! Come and help me pick out some of the supplies for the Merry!" Ussopp led her away from the group walking to the Merry to Luffy and the others. "Oh yes! I promised I would help you with the Merry didn't I?" She smiled.
"You guys, get the ship ready for an adventure!" Luffy pointed at the others as the four of the pirates headed to the home of the two angels.
Kimi and Ussopp searched through all kinds of tools while Sanji decorated each Nami, Robin and Kimi a lunch box while Luffy picked at the food. Suu, Conis's cloud fox ran over and jumped into Kimi's lap. "Aww, hey there little guy." She smiled and patted his head.
"Oh I'm sorry, are you the shipwrights of your crew?" Pagaya asked Ussopp and Kimi. Both shook their heads no. "Huh, no way! I'm the gunner. Kimi here is our brilliant scientist! And she's the newest member of our crew, huh Kimi-san?"
"Oh that is most impressive!" Pagaya stated, "Yea, we don't have a shipwright in the crew yet." Ussopp patted Suu's head. "That's no problem though because it means that they have to depend on my almighty resourcefulness to fix everything!" Ussopp laughed and Kimi giggled at his boastfulness.
Kimi lifted Suu into her arms and then stood up. "I'm pretty sure this is all we need Ussopp-san." She noted to her pile. "I'm not exactly sure, I left my notebook on the ship or else I could tell you." She started to walk over to the balcony with Suu still in her arms. The wind blew through Kimi's blue hair even though most of it was pulled into a sleek bun, her bangs and short layers that hung down were victims of the wind. Suu started to purr at her petting him and she giggled at him. "You are too cute." She stated to him.
"Aww thank you Kimi-san! My love for you is held within this beautiful piece of art that is fit for your heart!" Sanji sang in the living room. Kimi turned around and smiled, "Sorry Sanji-san, I was talking to Suu. But it does look beautiful- the food I mean."
Luffy started to laugh at Sanji, "Ahaha, you thought you were a pet!"
"THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!" He yelled back.
Kimi smiled and then turned back to the sea. She could tell that someone had just raised the anchor and that the rest of the group had made their way onto their precious ship. She then heard footsteps behind her and then Ussopp at her side. He stood fixed on the Merry too.
Just then the Merry started to rock back and forth and she could hear screaming. "Oi, something is wrong with the Merry!" Ussopp yelled and Sanji and Luffy ran to the ledge along with the other two. Sanji looked through a small looking glass, "W-why? Why is Nami-san wearing a T-shirt?" His face turned blue.
"Oi! The ship is moving! Where are they going?" Luffy hopped onto the ledge.
"Look there is a giant shadow underneath the Merry!" Kimi pointed out.
"Whoah and the ship is going backwards! How is it doing that!" Luffy smiled.
"Guys! Look!" Kimi then noticed a dark red creature climbing out of the water. Just then a giant red crab holding the Merry with the word 'God' written on its head took the Merry further and further away.
The four watched in silence until there was nothing left. "I-it's g-gone." Kimi stood there with her mouth open. "Nami and the others…" She held onto Suu harder. "W-why? Why a t-shirt?" Sanji gasped. "Are you still talking about that?" Ussopp hit him. "Where did they go?" Luffy asked. Then he looked over at Pagaya. "Where did they go?" He asked again.
"The super express shrimp is a servant of god. Whatever it transports, it becomes an offering. It can only be heading to Upper Yard to the sacrificial altar. "Sacrificial? You mean to tell me that Nami-san and Robin-chan and the others are going to be sacrificed? You wanna mess with me!" Sanji yelled at the poor man. Frightened, Suu hoped out of Kimi's arms and into a corner.
"I'm sorry, please wait! I have heard that those who are to become sacrifices receive one of two forms of Heaven's judgment. Sacrifice or the Ordeals. They are now in God's hand, so to speak. Consequently, the ones being judged right now, are you four right here."
Kimi gasped realizing the sudden twist in the sequence of the events. "We are the ones being judged?" She asked. "Yes, I wish I had a map to show you how to get to your friends." Pagaya said. Kimi faced the sharpshooter, "Hey Ussopp don't you have that old map of Skypiea that we got from that ship?" Ussopp did and the group gathered around the coffee table in the living room.
Everyone listened to Pagaya's directions, but Kimi noticed a very shameful look upon Conis's face. "Hey Conis? Is everything alright?" She looked across the table at the blonde girl. "Oh yes, I'm just afraid for your friends." Kimi blew it off for the moment, but something told her that Conis had something she was hiding from her and the others. She would tuck that under her belt just in case she would need it for later.
The four decided to head out to save their Nakama. Conis and Pagaya offered them back bags, supplies and food and a boat for them to reach their friends. Sanji had borrowed a shirt from Pagaya and rolled up his black pants to cool down. Conis had also agreed to take the group to the wharf in Lovely Street.
As the four of the Strawhats followed Conis through the town, each of them all stared at the beauty and landscape of the buildings. "Lovely Street is the only shopping district on Angel Island." Conis explained continuing to walk.
Kimi looked up, "Look they even have some shops in the clouds!" She pointed. She had fallen a bit behind the group looking at the beauty of the town, but then she noticed something odd. Once there had been many people walking and talking on the street and now they were all silent and had started to back away from her and the crew ahead of her. 'Something's not right? I feel tension from these angels and from Conis…' She frowned.
"Oi, Kimi? What are you doing back there?" Luffy stopped and turned to face her. "Oh, sorry!" She jogged over to him holding onto the strap of the bag on her back. Ussopp slowed down too, "Are they avoiding us?" He whispered to Kimi. "I believe they are, but I can understand. We are criminals after all." She continued to look forward almost to avoid the street people in revenge. "The wharf is this way." Conis smiled and turned to the right.
"What we are leaving the town already?" Luffy pouted. "Of course we are leaving! This isn't where we're heading, right?" Ussopp reminded their captain. "We should just take it easy here."
Kimi giggled, "Luffy, don't you want to go to the land we should never ever set foot on?" She reminded him. "Yosh! Let's head to the Warf!" He then raised his fists in the air. "Kimi-chan, we should just escape from these two and go on a romantic adventure together! Conis-san would you like to join too?" Sanji had a heart in his one eye. "No thanks, I think we should meet up with the others, Sanji-san." Kimi smiled.
They soon arrived at the dock. There were many different gondolas and boats floating in the cloudy sea. "There are many kinds of boats anchored here. From hotel boats you can sleep on to high-speed types with large Dials on board." Conis explained. "Whoah! This one is awesome!" Luffy ran over to a big red boat with a bull on the front and a bright green roof to block the sun. "Idiot. We are going to save Nami-san and Robin-chan. Not relax on a boat." Sanji angrily argued with Luffy.
"So Conis-san, these boats are also used by the same power as the Waver, correct?" Kimi examined the ships as she walked passed. "Correct. These are just a bit bigger than the waver's dial." She nodded continuing to walk ahead. "Your gondola is this way."
Kimi tilted her head at Conis. 'There is defiantly something she and the rest of the angels know that we don't...' "The Little Crow!" Conis presented the small ship smiling. Kimi started to giggle at the boy's reactions. They had apparently thought that it would be a giant extravagant ship by the look on their faces. "I used it all the time before I learned how to use a Waver. It might not go as fast as a Waver, but it had two onboard Breath Dials. Please use it."
"No, I'm not going." Luffy said with a blank face. "I like that one better!" he pointed back to the red bull boat. Conis looked at the boat he pointed to, "Oh, you don't like it? I'm sorry." She apologized.
Sanji started to kick Luffy repeatedly, "Apologize! You shitty excuse for a man! Pay no attention to his selfishness." Luffy turned with a swollen face, "I'm sowrry."
"You can exit through the No. 2 Gate. You will emerge on the wide Milky Road which leads to Upper Yard. Y-you just have to follow it." She looked down at the end of her statement.
"Oi Conis? Why have you been trembling ever since we left your house?" Surprisingly, Luffy had also picked up on Conis's strange behavior. "Does it look like something is wrong?" She placed her hands together.
"Yeah, almost like you're afraid of something."
"Sanji smiled, "Conis-chan! You must be worried about us! That's so sweet of you!"
"But, will you and your father be alright? The other people in town got all red-faced and avoided us. But you're lending us your boat and you even told us the way. Isn't that gonna make you look like our accomplice?" Ussopp concluded.
"If you were scared, we could have come here by ourselves." Luffy added.
"No…I…it's not what you think! Telling you the way and telling you about the ordeals-"
"STOP! DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID!" The leader of the White Berets had followed the group and shouted from a distance.
Kimi looked back at Conis's face. She was now biting her lip and tears were starting to form in her eyes. Just then she fell to the ground bowing at the four of them, "Will you please escape from here? I'm so sorry!" She cried.
"STOP!"
"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!" Some of the angels yelled out.
"The one who called the Super-Express Speed Shrimp…was me!" Her tears ran down from her face. "That shrimp that abducted Nami-san and the other?" Sanji yelled at the girl. "I lied and told them there was a current they could travel on. I made them raise their anchor and that was the signal for the Super-Express Speed Shrimp to come! After discovering criminals, we must guide them to the Land of Judgment or we will be killed!"
"STOP TALKING!"
"Do you realize what you are saying!"
"You're committing sacrilege against God!"
"I'm sorry." The tears poured out of Conis's eyes and then a wave of sadness ran down Kimi's spine. "You didn't have any choice…right?" Kimi shook with her words. Conis nodded. "Then, WHY DID YOU TELL US!" All four of the Strawhats yelled at her. Luffy ran and placed his hand on her shoulder. "Now they're gonna come after you!" He yelled furious at the girl.
"It's too late!"
"Everyone get away from the girl!"
"The judgment is coming!"
Kimi looked around at all of the angels running away. Then she saw a white light from the sky that started to grow brighter and bigger with each passing second. "Luffy! Save Conis!" Kimi cried out but Luffy had already picked her up and begun to run away from the spot she had sat in. 'They aren't going to make it. That beam is getting too big!' Kimi thought and cloned herself to aid Luffy along.
The light started to blind Kimi and the others and from out of nowhere the ground started to shake uncontrollably causing Kimi to lose her balance. She opened her eyes and saw nothing but clouds. "Luffy! Conis!" She cried out noticing the giant hole that the beam had cause.
Sanji ran over to Kimi, "Kimi-san are you okay?" He picked her up onto her feet. "I'm fine, what about them!"
"It's no use, the almighty God Enel is watching us." One of the angel men answered her.
"N-no…" Kimi thought only wishing she had been quicker with the use of her devil fruit.
"They are both safe!" A somewhat familiar voice answered. From out of the hole the familiar pink and polka-dotted horse and an armored Knight riding the flying horse flew out. He threw the conscious Luffy towards the group but kept Conis on the back of the horse. "I will see to the girl. Enel will not be able to attack her again while she is with me. You have unveiled the real feelings of this land. As well as God's power. How will you handle that?" He asked.
"We are going to find our nakama no matter what." Luffy adjusted his hat. "May luck be with you then!" And Gan Fall flew off.
Kimi nodded and walked to the crow, the other's following. She threw her bag in the back and then reached out to take the other's bags. "Please let me handle it, my sweet Kimi-san!" Sanji smiled and then did the job for her.
Luffy unbuttoned his red vest and then took control of the wheel "Yosh let's head to God's land!" He yelled out. Kimi sat across from Sanji while Ussopp sat cowardly in the back of the small ship. "Remember Luffy, head to the 2nd gate, Conis-san had told us before she was attacked." Kimi lead. "Yosh!"
Kimi didn't have her notebook to write on since she left it on the ship and she started to have withdrawals. "Do you guys think Conis and her father will be alright? She's a criminal now because she tried to help us right?" Kimi hugged her knees.
"That Knight of the Sky Ossan said he'd take care of her…" Ussopp added.
"We have no choice but to trust him." Sanji lit a new cigarette. "I'd like to protect her myself, but there's no way we could've taken her with us."
"Man this thing is slow!" Luffy complained from the front. "This boat is several times heavier than a Waver. We just have to take it as it is. At least we have a boat." Kimi looked out at the land. "I just want those two to be safe. Away from this awful God." Kimi sighed.
"You miss your own father, don't you?" Ussopp concluded. Kimi looked up surprised and then thought about it. "Yes, I guess I do. I look at Conis and her father and see me and my father. I just want them to be safe." She smiled sweetly.
"My precious Kimi-san is so loving!" Sanji sang. "You are ridiculous." Ussopp sweat dropped.
The crow picked up some speed as they fell down a waterfall. "Whoah! Look at that big forest! It's huge!" Luffy smiled.
"This map does have a forest on it, but it's not this big…" Ussopp unrolled the old map he had and examined it. Kimi leaned over his shoulder and looked at it as well. "The guy who had that map was over 200 years old, and even then, that map might've already been old." Sanji concluded.
They eventually made their way to the entrance of the forest. Burring torches with the word "God" written on them filled the area. Statues faced the boat as it entered through. It was quite creepy. Soon pieces of different ship wrecks filled the path way. "Look! There are broken ships this way! Let's go back!" Ussopp cried. "What's more is that all of these ships look like they have been split in half." Kimi stated.
"Quick! Start paddling!" Ussopp threw an oar to Sanji and the two started to paddle the ship a bit faster. Kimi heard a weird noise and then behind them and then a giant swinging sword hit an old ship behind them.
"Here comes another!" Kimi noticed the noise from ahead. "PADDLE AS HARD AS YOU CAN!" Luffy screamed. Kimi took control of the ship while the boys started to paddle. She maneuvered passed two swinging scythes. "Enough of this! Gum Gum Bazoka!" He pushed off of one of the swords making the crow shoot off into the air. Once the crow landed back into the water everything just started to get worse. This time spears started to attack the crew on the tiny boat. Kimi screamed but tried to focus on maneuvering through the deadly objects, but just as before Luffy pushed the ship away from the area.
"I hope that's all, dammit." Ussopp cried.
But of course, that was not the end. A circular sharp boomerang started to attack the small crow. "It doesn't matter how many lives we have! This place is gonna do us in! Kimi turn us around right now!" Ussopp tried to turn the ship's wheel.
"Yosh I had enough! Gum gum…" Luffy was about to hit the sharp weapon but then realized it would hurt him if he did. "I can't." He blankly stated. Ussopp screamed and turned the ship just in time but also knocked Kimi down off of the chair.
"Oi why did you hit Kimi-san?" Sanji kicked Ussopp in the face. "What? I didn't mean too! We need to survive this crazy place!" He cried back. Kimi waved it away, "I'm fine Sanji-san, no problem!" She smiled and looked back. The momentum of the boomerang hitting and slicing a giant tree stopped the object from attacking them again.
"This forest is cool!" Luffy smiled and sat down. "It is not cool! Everything here is trying to kill us!" The scared sharpshooter yelled. "Look there is a giant face up ahead now!" Luffy pointed to the front.
"There's four different entrances. Does that mean each one leads to different locations?" Kimi wondered aloud.
"Ordeal of swamp. Ordeal of Iron. Ordeal of string. Ordeal of balls." Ussopp read the entrances.
"We get to pick any door we want!" The captain smiled without any worry whatsoever. "So now God wants to play a game with us?" Sanji started to get aggravated.
"Which one should we choose?" Ussopp needed to know quickly before he chose one by himself. "Do the ordeal of balls!" Luffy pointed to the last one on the right.
"Why that one?" Kimi wondered aloud.
"It sounds like fun!"
"That's your reason! They're not supposed to be fun! These are ordeals!" Ussopp yelled back. Hesitant, he did as he captain said and turned the wheel to the right. They entered the dome but it was pitch black inside.
"Hey you know what this reminds me of? You know how there were four doors, one of them is a prize door, and the rest are all losing ones." Luffy didn't get the fact that he was saying.
"Luffy! What if we picked the wrong one?" Kimi giggled not thinking it was possible. "Oi what would happen if we chose the wrong one!" Ussopp screamed.
"If you choose wrong…well…we'll probably fall off Sky Island." He laughed.
"BAKA! YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES YOUR LIFE WOULD FLASH BEFORE YOUR EYES DURING THAT FALL! WE ARE 10,000 METERS ABOVE THE BLUE SEA! THAT'S CRAZY!"
"Enough of this shit! There's no way-" Sanji started but as the light started to grow meaning they were out of the tunnel the ship started to fall. It was like they had picked the wrong door just like Luffy had said.
All four screamed their lungs out, completely scared to death by what Luffy had just said. Thank goodness, the crow had landed back onto a path that lead further into the forest. "We…are…alive…I really thought…we were falling 10,000 meters…" Ussopp gasped soaking wet from the fall.
Luffy couldn't stop laughing even as Sanji kicked him over and over, "IT'S BECAUSE YOU MADE UP THAT DUMBASS STORY, LUFFY!"
"I was scared! I thought we were gonners!" He laughed.
Kimi wiped off the water from her face giggling from the scary thought that crossed her mind. "That was so scary." She smiled and Sanji ran to her aid. "Kimi-san? Are you alright? Do you need mouth-to-mouth? A little kiss to clear your mind?" Kimi just pushed him off of her kindly. "Thanks, but no thanks Sanji-san!" She looked out at the area and noticed a swarm of white cloudy balls surrounding the environment.
"What are these?" She asked standing up to take a better look.
"They are balls?" Luffy stood next to her. "It looks like they are made out of cloud?" Kimi noted. "They look like huge snowballs!"
Kimi laughed at her captain. "You really don't have a care in the world, do you, Luffy?"
"Well, you're gonna die somehow, why not have fun!" Ussopp stood up, "DON'T MAKE IT SEEM LIKE WE ARE GOING TO DIE HERE!"
Luffy and Ussopp started to complain about wanting to eat, while Sanji attempted to distract them from not while he steered. Kimi kept looking out at the many cloud balls that floated in the air. It was then that an odd shaped ball on top of another one. Somehow, Luffy and Ussopp started to play ball with one of the clouds but from the inside a snake popped out and tried to bite Ussopp's head off.
"Sanji! Watch out there's another one in front of you!" Kimi pointed to him. "Shit! So all these floating things are snake eggs?" He yelled and then kicked the ball. However, it was not an egg at all, but rather a bomb that exploded as soon as he kicked it. "What the hell is up with these balls?" Ussopp screamed.
"It's fun to see what pops out!" An echo called out from the forest. Kimi looked over at the noise and noticed the strange ball again. 'I knew it. That's a person!' She saw the man's face. He had a body of the white balls, but wore an orange hat, gloves and shoes and had dark red hair with circular glasses on.
"I call them surprise balls!" He smiled sitting on top of a ball. "Thank you for choosing my Ordeal of Balls, I am Satori of the Forest!"
"Stop dancing! So your one of the priests eh?" Sanji yelled out to him.
"What the- he looks stupider than I expected." "Didn't Nami and that Ossan say they were really strong?" Luffy and Ussopp whispered to each other. "Excuse me, but how do we get out of here exactly?" Kimi asked Satori. "You're going to have to defeat me before you go any further!" He continued to dance.
Satori jumped off of the ball and towards the four. "Yosh! I got 'em!" Luffy started to ball up his fists. "Oh you're going to stretch!" Satori yelled out and just as Luffy attacked he moved just in the nick of time. He then reached his arm to Luffy's face and blew Luffy away from the crow. "LUFFY!" Kimi and Ussopp leaned over and watched him fall to the forest floor.
"Oi, Luffy, you're alright huh? A weak punch like that shouldn't hurt you! LUFFY!"
"A punch? No it's a little different than a punch!" Satori laughed. "Why is that?" Kimi yelled pissed off. "Oh I could tell you but it wouldn't matter!" He smiled and raised his arm to her face.
Kimi's eyes widened but it was too late. The move he had just used to knock Luffy off had just then knocked-out the blue-haired girl. "KIMIKO!" Sanji ran and held her before she could fall off the crow. "You bastard!" He laid Kimi down on the side of the boat and then went to attack Satori with a kick, "An upper kick using the right foot!" Satori said and avoided Sanji's kick and then blew him with his odd hand punch off the crow. As well as Ussopp too.
"Shit. We are in for some trouble."