Kimiko smiled through the blood running down from her busted lip to her neck. "It's beautiful." She closed her eyes enjoying the sweet ringing the golden bell made as it chimed throughout the sky. The city of gold had been found and Luffy had been the most courageous of them all to fight and defeat Enel, the God of Skypiea. Well, the dictator of it really, since he had over thrown Gan Fall many years ago causing the people of Skypiea much trouble throughout the years.

"All this time…"

"It's beautiful."

"Ahhh! The bell sounds so pretty!"

Kimi's crewmates responded along with her comment of the golden bells chime. The blue haired girl only hoped that Cricket and his two monkey friends could hear the ringing of the bell from the blue sea below.

"Let's go find the others!" Ussopp had declared once the bell finished ringing. Everyone nodded and traveled along the ruined city to find Zoro, Luffy and Nami.

"Oi! I found him! Zoro please I need to treat you right away, your wounds are severe." Chopper insisted to help the stubborn swordsman.

"No, really, I'm fine." He looked up with his face full of cuts, bruises and dirt. "But him…over there…he needs help." Zoro pointed to the Shandian warrior known as Wiper, who was lying on the ground passed out. He was one crazy son of a gun and Kimi had seen firsthand at all of self-destructing attacks he tried to fight Enel with. It was no wonder that now, after the hard and vicious battle of Skypiea he would be dying or trying to regain his strength as much as he could.

"You're right, Zoro…" Chopper waddled over to the warrior and examined him, "His body is breaking down…he's dying."

Sanji walked next to Kimi, "Yea but he had been trying to kill us. We don't owe him anything."

"I know…" Zoro muttered to the cook trying to compose his own self, "But he was going all out fighting just like the rest of us."

Sanji turned his head to face Kimi, the newest of their crew. "So he's a hero?" He asked while Kimi smiled sweetly through her busted lower lip.

"Chopper!" She walked ahead of the two men towards Wiper and her doctor. "Need any help?" She knelt next to the Shandian warrior thinking about the moments she had fought with and alongside of this Skypiean man.

"There, that's as much as I can do so far." Chopper wiped his head and smiled at Kimi, "Thanks for helping me!"

She finished knotting the man's arm bandage and smiled, "Thanks for teaching me. I really like learning about this type of stuff. It's really interesting." She stood from her position and brushed off her blue pants. "I hope he gets better soon."

Chopper nodded and then looked over his shoulder at the sleeping swordsman who had not moved from his position of leaning against a large piece of rubble from a building structure. "Give me the rest of the bandages, I have to help Zoro." Chopper instructed and then ran over to the green haired man quickly.

Kimi smiled and then took a final look at Wiper below her. 'Get better…' She thought to herself and then walked over to the rest of the crewmates.

"I'd rather have these dials than gold any day!" Ussopp declared as Kimi walked in on the conversation. "I agree Ussopp!" She smiled standing next to the long nosed man.

"Chopper, would you stop it!" Zoro had woken up as soon as the reindeer tried to bandage his arm.

"Would you cut it out and let me put these bandages on! It won't be too long if you just hold still!" He yelled back and reluctantly he agreed. The crew sat in silence for a moment or two when they heard a screaming voice in the distance moving closer and closer to them.

"Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" Luffy's raspy voice cheered while two female figures on either side of him ran alongside of the strawhat pirate.

"Look!"

"It's Luffy!"

"And Nami and Conis!"

They had been dragging behind them what looked to be a big sack of food and supplies. "I'm so glad you all are alive! I never thought I'd see any of you all again!" Conis cried in her hands as they finished making their way to the crew.

Zoro stood up to shake Luffy's hand, "I'm glad you guys got some food, where's it from?"

Nami smiled at her prize, "Well we found the priests storage locker on our way back through the forest!"

"Dere wazzza lots of food!" Luffy mumbled through the two pieces of meat shoved in his mouth.

Kimi giggled at her captain and then noticed the very distressed face on Conis, "Hey Conis? Where is your father? Wasn't he last with you?" She wondered crossing her arms.

The blonde angel girl looked up at Kimi and frowned even bigger, "Well he…he protected me…and then Enel…" She stopped talking.

Everyone felt a thick amount of tension growing around the group. "I'm…I'm sorry…" Kimi looked down at her feet horrified that Conis's father had perished. She thanked that she never would feel that type of pain, especially not at a young age of Conis and hadn't known how else or what else to say to her.

"I'm sorry…" Sanji spoke out.

"Yea, me too…" A voice behind the crew spoke.

"Yea, me three…" Luffy nodded.

"Wait a minute…" Kimi looked over her shoulder at the unknown voice, "Hey you're supposed to be dead!" The crew besides Kimi and Robin yelled at Conis's father, Pagaya.

"Oh, sorry! I'm alive!" He sweat dropped holding his crying daughter and then told the story of how he had survived Enel's attack and that the angels of Skypiea had currently been traveling to Upper Yard just as he and his daughter had.

After talking and eating with the provided snacks Luffy and the other's had brought, Nightfall arrived quicker than wanted for Kimi and the others. "Well I guess it's time to head back to the ship!" Nami sighed satisfied by her provided meal.

"Wait! You don't mean that we are leaving do you?" Luffy asked nervous to leave Skypiea already but instead of listening, Kimi had looked up into the night sky only wishing her father had been with her to witness her bravery and victory from this adventure.

She hugged her knees pulling them closer to her body and sighed feeling satisfied by the food in her belly, the victory of Skypiea, and the injuries on her body healing. It was all-in-all, a great day besides the feeling of thinking she was going to die multiple times.

A rustling of bushes in the distance made the crew un-easy, but when they were faced-to-face with Skypieans, both Angels and Shandians, Luffy insisted that they hold a campfire in honor of the victory. It was a joyful celebration making all of the tension from the past disappears as if it had never happened.

Skypiea was a peaceful after 400 years and as Kimi jotted down her thoughts of the victory in her journal ignoring the perusing dance requests and beer chugging challenges, she looked to the sky once again smiling and giggling at the happiness engulfing her.

'So this is what it means to have friends…I love this moment and I don't ever want it to end.' She wrote it down on the page and then set her journal to the side finally accepting a partner dance from a Shandian male.

And just as Kimi hoped, the party didn't stop!

For four whole days and nights, the Shandians and Angels along with the Strawhat pirates, drank, ate, and danced away. It was a wonderful and much needed celebration after living in fear in Skypiea for all of these past years. Kimi and the others had only been there about a week and they could feel the much needed celebration as well.

All in all, the party died down and all the people of Skypiea decided to work and live among each other, not discriminating any one by their past or who they were. While that was being done, The Strawhats had planned to steal the gold from the ancient city and leave quickly so that the Skypieans wouldn't notice.

At this point, Luffy, Nami, Sanji, and Chopper had been searching for gold, while Zoro, Kimi and Ussopp had been asked to stay behind and make sure the Skypieans would not be suspicious. Robin had been asked to stay with Kimi and the others, but she insisted that she needed to travel the rest of the Island that she hadn't explored when they started their journey of Upper Yard days ago.

The young blue haired woman sat on the edge of a piece of rubble writing down some more interesting facts about the island while Ussopp left wanting to trade with some of the locals for their dials. Kimi hoped that he would trade and receive many interesting dials so that she and he could experiment and use them in their inventions, and specifically for Kimiko, her science projects.

Meanwhile, Zoro had been working out as usual with Kimi as his only companion. Even though she hadn't said a word since Ussopp had left, Zoro enjoyed the calm serenity surrounding the two crew members.

She was certainly good company since she usually kept to herself and wrote in her journal the whole time, but there was something about Kimiko that Zoro had uneasiness about her…He couldn't tell if it was a bad uneasiness, or a good, but he pushed the feeling aside and continued to concentrate on his training by slicing a steel brick in half with one swing of his sword.

He was getting stronger, he could tell…but he still needed to be stronger than he was at this moment. He had almost gotten his ass handed to him by that priest god and he knew there were more and stronger enemies out there just waiting for him and his crew.

The wind blew for a moment making the swordsman drop his tense shoulders. The small chime from his three piercing ear made him look out of the corner of his eye to the female scientist.

Kimi had removed her outer grey shirt from her outfit since it had already been torn and blood stained from the battles she faced, now leaving her arms exposed while the black turtle neck continued to conceal her neck. Even though it wasn't the sexy parts of her skin showing, it was very unusual for the girl to show off her body and it made her somewhat uncomfortable.

But she figured if she hung around Nami and Robin more and more, she would probably start to get used to it.

Luckily her scars on her body were healing a lot faster than some of the other wounds her crewmates had obtained. The only injury that hadn't been healing, or rather peeling off as well as some of the others were the dead skin patches that had been zapped by Enel when she confronted him.

She sighed pushing her book to the side and scratched off some of the dead skin right above her gloved wrist. "Darn scab…" She muttered trying to scratch it off.

"You know if you continue to scratch it, Chopper will just wrap you up like me." Zoro responded continuing to face the opposite direction of her.

She sighed removing her digging nails and frowned, "I know but it itches…why did he have to zap me anyways…" She couldn't remember why she had been defiant and spoke out of line, but Enel had rubbed her the wrong way and after fighting for her life the whole morning she was tired of it.

Zoro lowered his sword and smirked at the girl turning his whole body to face her. "You had a lot of guts making fun of him." He nodded.

Kimi blushed lowering her head from her past actions, "I don't know why, but I just had to try to stop his plan. He made me so angry…" She thought about her tone of voice and how temperamental she had been at that moment.

Before she met up with the others, Kimi watched from behind a crumbled wall as Robin had been electrocuted from the God, Enel, just before he collapsed the city she and the others had been standing on causing them fall to below with Giant Jack in the middle of the city.

She had treated Robin as best as she could, but without Chopper and his medical supplies, she could only do so much. "This man…his power…" She gasped. "How can we beat him…?" She thought holding Robin in her arms.

"Oi! Kimi-san!" Zoro's voice pulled her out from her inner thoughts.

"Zoro! Are you alright?" She noticed how badly he had looked since the last time she had seen him before he fought the priest. "Did you beat the priest?"

The man huffed and Kimi had noticed a certain knocked-out reindeer in his arms. "Of course I beat him! Where have you been?"

She smiled and stood from Robin. "Well I-"At that time, she watched in horror as Enel had zapped the giant snake into a crisp as well.

"Oi! Nami! She was in there!" Zoro panicked.

"What! You never got her or the little girl out!" Kimi panicked as well.

"Huh? Kimi? Zoro?"

A voice made the two turn around, "Nami! What are you doing here?" Kimi sighed and smiled relieved her friend had been safe.

"When did you get out of his stomach?" Zoro yelled back.

"Well, I'm okay but the snake and Luffy…Luffy was still inside of there." The navigator face palmed. "What? Why the hell is he in there? Damnit! I swear he is nothing but trouble, why the hell is he always like this?" Zoro yelled agitated by the carless action of their captain.

Kimi looked behind her as Wiper and Enel started to fight. "Nami, stay here with Chopper…" She nodded and then walked forwards with Gan Fall at her side.

"Oi! Kimi, wait up!" Zoro dropped off Chopper and then ran to her other side along with the others with two of his swords in his hands.

"I welcome you spirited survivors!" Enel smiled resting on a cloud ball. "I commend you for making it this far!" He then proceeded to laugh while the four remained silent carefully eying the God. "What's wrong? I'm just having a little fun…I predicted there would be five left standing in my Survival Game including me and the ones that have fallen." He closed his eyes continuing to talk, "In other words, I cannot end my game in the designated three hours with the six people here."

'Damn, he realized Nami is in hiding…' Kimi thought to herself looking behind her only with her eyes and then quickly looked back at Enel eyeing him carefully.

"Now then, who will disappear? Will you fight among yourselves?...Or maybe I should pick one of you myself." Enel whispered just enough for everyone to hear.

"What do you think?" Zoro muttered to his crewmate.

"Well I'm not up for fighting…" She closed her eyes smirking.

"I also refuse." Wiper added.

"I have made my decision." Gan Fall nodded.

At that point in time, Gan Fall had raised his weapon along with Wiper's bazooka and Zoro's swords, while Kimi raised her arms in the air ready to use her fruit power. "YOU WILL DISAPEAR!" They all yelled in unison ready to fight Enel with everything they had.

"That's very funny!" Enel began to laugh hysterically. "I can see how you all have survived my game, but you four do not seem to know who you are addressing." He raised his gold staff in the air making it spark with electricity for a second.

Kimi took a deep breath not taking her eyes off of the man as he turned around. She could feel her heart-beat increasing, making the blood throughout her body pump ferociously. 'I have to stay calm…' she thought to herself trying not to shake from how nervous her body was becoming.

Suddenly, Gan Fall brought Enel out from his thoughts, "Tell me where my enforcers are and tell me what it is that you desire!" He spat out.

"Ascension, Gan Fall… When God ascends, he returns to his rightful place."

"Returns? You mean that you are leaving Skypiea?" The sky night questioned.

"Yes, I have a place I must return too, where God really exists. Fairy Vearth, the world of dreams which I desire!" He stood to his feet on the cloud ball and then looked over his shoulder, "Upper Yard isn't even worth my time." He raised his staff making the cloud ball disappear and then floated down to the ground using his Logia Fruit ability. "As God, the laws of nature fall under my jurisdiction, and yes, I must enforce them. I shall rip every man, woman and child out of the sky!" He smiled revealing his real plan of Skypiea.

Kimi gasped realizing he was planning to kill everyone in the sky. She shook her head closing her eyes at the horror he had been planning from the beginning.

While she caught up with her increasing breathe, Enel revealed to Gan Fall that he had killed all of his enforcers causing the old man to attack the lightning God resulting in the electrocution and destruction of the old man.

"The power of lightning…how terrifying…especially as a Logia fruit type…" Kimi nodded to herself.

"Congratulations, there are five survivors now!" Enel smiled holding up his five-fingered hand. "Now you all will accompany me on my journey to the World of Dreams!" He announced.

Kimi huffed crossing her arms from her attack stance, "And if we refuse?" She questioned to the God.

Enel frowned looking at the girl, "Why? If you remain here, you will fall into the abyss along with this land."

"I have no doubt in your ability to drag Skypiea to the blue sea…" Kimi nodded finally fed up with Enel. "But as my dear friend Robin informed me, if you destroy Skypiea you will rid of the real reason you came to this island in the first place." She glared at him evilly.

"The golden bell?" Enel smirked.

"Yes…" Kimi thought of the words Robin had spoke to her right before she had been shocked by Enel. "The golden bell will be dragged down to the sea and you will never have it." The blue-haired woman smirked hoping his plan to travel to Fairy Vearth would be stopped.

"When I think back to your friend's movements, there is only one place it could possibly be…" Enel smirked making Kimiko gasp at his knowledge Robin had revealed to her in private. She opened her eyes wide not believing her ears, "I suspect it is in the same place she told you of." The God smirked evilly.

'Damn…he knows!' Kimi took a step backwards frighten by the look in Enel's eyes. "You should not call yourself a God! You have no respect for the people who abide by your rules!" She spat out feeling scared from the tension.

"Kimi!" Zoro whispered.

"Did you think you could take advantage of me with that information?" Enel raised his blue glowing hand, "I hate manipulative and mocking woman!"

Kimi's blue eyes widened even more as a spark of light grew before her eyes. Pain struck through her head and then traveled throughout her body causing her to not be able to move any longer. She tried her best to keep her mind awake and try to use her devil fruit power…but her body gave up.

Second by second she felt her body shutting down until it blacked out on her completely.

What Kimi hadn't known, was that as her body began to give out and fall behind, Zoro had jumped in and prevented the blue-haired woman to fall on the ground. Instead she fell into his strong arms. "She's a woman!" Zoro glared at Enel practically throwing his swords to the man with the use of his eyes.

"Yes. I can tell." Enel smiled back understanding Zoro's care towards Kimiko.

Like a speeding bullet, Zoro ran towards the God after placing Kimi carefully on the ground. He was going to defend her honor in the best way he could: By kicking the crap outta Enel's ass.

"Whoohooo! I'm so lucky!" Ussopp's voice rang stopping Kimi from her memory.

"Well you sure are in a good mood Ussopp…" Zoro muttered without emotion. Kimi jumped from her sitting position and walked over to the green haired swordsman to face the long nosed man. "I'm guessing your trading went well?" Kimi smiled crossing her arms behind her back.

"Oh yea! Just look at all the dials I got!" He pointed to a huge sack tied to his back. "One little press," He held a flame dial in his hands and pushed the apex causing the dial to emit a flame. "And Viola!"

"Oh well, good for you…" Zoro muttered tapping his sword with the dull side on his shoulder.

"Ussopp! This is great! I want to see all the types of dials you've collected once we get back on the Merry!" Kimi jumped up and down giggling at the strange shells only found on Skypiea. Zoro looked over at the two giggling crewmates and simply rolled his eyes closing them once again as he concentrated.

"We can do so many cool things with them! Ohhhhhh! I can make Nami's weapon so much stronger and my sling shot too! Kimi! Are you up for the challenge!" He danced with her in a circle laughing at the ideas he had in his head. With Kimi's scientific abilities, he could really use the best of the dials to their abilities.

"Well of course!" She giggled.

"Yay! The old Ussopp-Workshop is going to be totally revolutionized once we get on the Merry again! Ha haha!"

Kimi nodded and then sighed with a smile as she watched Ussopp come down from his inventor's high. She looked towards the swordsman who seemed to be finishing his workout as well. "So where's everybody else?" Ussopp asked.

"Wel-"

"Luffy and the other's are still inside." Zoro cut Kimi off pointing one of his three swords towards the giant passed out snake the crew had gone inside to retrieve gold from. "Robin is still out exploring on her own." He finished by twirling his sword in the air and then sheathed it by his hip.

Ussopp gasped slightly walking in front of the two towards the snake. "The snake's still knocked out huh? He must be really tired then…"

"You'd be too if you danced for four days straight…wonder what he was so happy about?" Zoro replied walking behind Ussopp with Kimi on his side.

"I hope they come out soon. I wouldn't want him to wake up angry…" She thought aloud.

"Who? This well mattered snake?" Ussopp asked still facing the snake.

"Easy for you to say, you didn't see him when he was mad. He's dangerous..." Zoro muttered looking at Kimi. She too had seen the raw and sheer power from the vicious beast just before she had been zapped by Enel.

"Who? This well mattered snake?" Ussopp repeated his statement.

"Like I said, you didn't see him when he was upset. Just wait till he tries to eat you, you'll see what a pain he can be!" Zoro huffed starting to get angry.

"Who? This well mattered snake?" Ussopp repeated once again, making Kimi turn her head at his repeated question. Had he really not believed how dangerous and mean this snake could be. She had witness Nami and the little Shandian girl being eaten by it with Zoro. It was very frightful and if it hadn't been for the swordsman's agility, Kimi would have been eaten as well.

"Ussopp! Are you even listening to me?" Zoro yelled. The inventor turned around with a tone dial in his hand. He pressed the apex and it repeated his questioning statement. "Hahaha! Fooled you with the tone dial!" He cheered.

Kimi giggled as the flustered swordsman yelled, "Stop being stupid!"

"You're the one being stupid by getting confused over the tone dial!" Ussopp yelled back making the swordsman chase him around the area leaving Kimi to giggle at the two's silliness.

"Hey Ussopp! Zoro! Kimi! Look at all the gold we just found!" Luffy voice rang from the mouth of the snake. The young woman ran to Luffy gasping at the mounds of gold "Wow! That's amazing!" She lifted up a golden pot and smiled at her refection in it. "It's almost like it hasn't been touched in years!"

"Probably because it's been inside of this snake forever!" Sanji replied caring even more.

"Kimiko, you and I will bring some of the gold to the ship and get the Merry ready for sail!" Nami declared returning with Chopper from the belly of the snake. Kimi nodded and raised her arms in the air making her infamous triangle position, "Clone clone!" She smiled and two doppelgangers of her appeared on either side of the girl. "We'll help." She smiled lifting a bag of gold in her arms along with the other clones of her as well.

"That fruit power sure comes in handy!" Nami chuckled realizing she didn't need to carry as much as she thought. "We'll see you guys on the ship! Remember to get Robin quickly! It's time to go back home!" Nami declared.

Kimi smiled to her male friends and then followed the orange haired girl through the forest to their beloved ship, The Going Merry.

Yay! The end of the Skypiea arc! I hope you enjoy my new writing technique. It's just way too hard to write the whole story episode by episode! There's too many! By the way, one of my favorite parts of the whole anime came from this episode. The part with ussopp tricking zoro with the tone dial! hahaha, gotta love it!

Look back soon for the next chapter as the Strawhats are captured in the marine base! (forgot the name, bahaha.)

-yesiamweird.