Chapter 3 finally here! Sorry it took so long to get it out. This semester was a little more hectic than I originally thought it would be. I took a lot more onto my plate than I really should have being as lazy as I am. I tried to teach two different bible studies this semester, help with a third, take 16 credit hours in college, and work a part time job. On top of being as lazy as I am it really didn't make for a very good combination. So this is me apologizing for my tardiness in this story or my other one if you read that one as well. I'm also sad to say that this will not be the last time it happens either since next semester is going to be even crazier. Just a heads up for you all before it gets here. I do plan on doing my best to update more often though. So with that said on to the story.
Luffy had just finished his speech to the crew about their adventure to get to Sky Island, and everyone was looking around in amazement at the sight surrounding the Going Merry.
All around them the ship was encompassed by clouds, and it seemed as if that was what the ship was actually floating on. Ichigo was rather shell shocked never before had he thought he would be able to actually be up amongst the clouds without either using his reiatsu to float by creating a platform for him to stand on when he was in the sky, or by sitting in a plane that was flying. The experience was defying every piece of logic that he had ever thought even remotely possible. Looking around Ichigo realized that he wasn't the only one either, for as he looked at his companions and the arrancar around the ship he could see the same stupefied look on all of their faces.
Urahara was the only one that didn't seem surprised by the fact that he was on a ship floating on clouds. Thinking that something about that fact was weird Ichigo walked up to him and said "Alright spill it shopkeeper, why aren't you surprised that we are floating in the sky on clouds."
Looking back at him Urahara simply flipped out his fan and in that creepy way of his smiled and said, "Well Ichigo to tell you the truth I am very surprised in fact I was wondering how to best go about getting a sample for study later after we find a place to settle down."
Looking at him Ichigo couldn't help but feel a chill run down his back at the way the old shopkeeper was looking at him kind of like he was about to send him into the clouds to get said sample. However luckily for Ichigo Usopp, the sniper for the strawhats who just happened to have the longest nose Ichigo, or anyone else from his world for that matter, had ever seen before, was currently talking to the doctor of the little crew they had joined. Chopper as he was called, was a little raccoon looking animal, which for some strange reason could speak very fluently. Their conversation was drawing the attention of those around them as Usopp said to the chopper, "Now watch as I the great Captain Usopp swim in the clouds."
In the background everyone heard Sanji, the blonde chef who they had all listened to tell them a little about what it would be like to be a pirate the night before, say "Don't do anything stupid." However, Sanji was ignored by Usopp as he turned from chopper and jumped into the clouds. Without even thinking about it Ichigo and Renji both ran up to the edge of the ship and started to look for him only to just catch a glimpse of his feet as he disappeared into the clouds.
For a while everyone just sat there waiting for Usopp to come back up, but he never did. That's when Robin the archeologist walked up and said "You know we think of this as a see, but is there really a bottom to this sea?"
When she finished saying this everyone's jaw dropped as the implications of what she had just said seemed to catch up with them. Ichigo turned back to look and see if he had come back up yet in the vain attempt at having not lost one of his new crewmates before he had even gotten to know him. What he saw instead caused him to do a double take on the situation, for there was the captain jumping about five feet into the air and throwing his arm into the clouds. This time it was Ichigo's turn to drop his jaw as he saw what was happening. Looking over at Ichigo Renji said "what's the matter with you berryboy?" That is when the others all saw Luffy's arm stretching into the clouds even though he was now standing on the deck, this sight caught most by surprise as they had not been paying attention earlier when Luffy had saved Bellamy when they were going up knock upstream. "HOW THE HELL IS HE DOING THAT?" Renji, Grimmjow, and Ichigo screamed as they all watched.
They were ignored though as Robin said to Luffy "Stretch your arm as far as you can."
"But I can't see, if I stretch as far as I can without seeing I'll miss for sure." Was the captain's reply to his new archeologist.
Giving a small smile Robin said "don't worry about seeing I'll take care of that."
Luffy being who he is just did as he was told and stretched his arm as far as he could, and robin crossed her arms over her chest saying "True seeing fleur." What no one else saw was that three different eyes appeared on Luffy's arm as it went flying through the clouds towards the sky beneath it. One of the eyes was on the palm of his hand while two more were now on some part of his stretched out forearm. After a few moments of this Robin finally called out "found him over there. Six wheel fleur. You can pull him up now"
Ichigo just stared at her as she said this, and said "ARE YOU ALL INSANE?! HOW CAN YOU SEE HIM FROM WHERE YOU ARE?"
As he finished screaming Nami the navigator for the ship, a little read headed girl with hair that she kept cut just above her shoulders, walked up to him and all of the new people Bellamy included and said "Robin ate the hana hana no mi, she can produce any part of the human body from anything she can see. Luffy also ate the gomu gomu no mi, so he is a rubber man." With that she turned away as if that explained everything that was happening.
Before anyone could ask her to go into more detail though Usopp was whipped out of the clouds. Following him however, were two large sea creatures. One looked like a giant octopus that towered over the little ship by nearly 100 feet and it was still only half out of the water, the second one looked like a snake that was probably about 100 feet long, and about 15 feet high. As they started to emerge though Chopper screamed out that they were there, and this caused several people amongst the crowd to start screaming, such as Usopp, Rukia, Orihime, Renji, Nami, and Chopper. Even Ichigo let out a bit of a scream, though the only one to notice this was Halibel as she had been watching the whole scene from next to Ulquiorra who was just as emotionless as normal.
Finally Zoro went flying by everyone there saying "Cowards, this is nothing to get excited about." As he finished saying this he jumped up into the air using the railing of the ship as a springboard to boost himself up. Once he was about twenty feet away from one of the tentacles that were flying towards the ship, everyone saw a quick flash of light centered around where Zoro's three blades were at his sides. As he landed on the deck again there was a loud pop as the tentacle burst like a balloon stepped on at birthday party. This caught most of the attention of those on the ship.
There were a few though that had watched as the snake had attacked the side of the ship, and Sanji had kicked it in the head effectively collapsing its skull, and killing it. Looking down at the snake that he had just kicked in the head Sanji said "hmm a mysterious creature I wonder if this passes for a fish in this sea?" What followed seemed to be the most normal point in the day so far, to everyone who had just joined the crew, as the entire regular crew started talking about the sea around them, that is until Usopp once again started screaming like a five year old girl while shaking is legs in the weirdest way that the others had ever seen.
Looking over his shoulder at him Sanji yelled at him "NOISY! WHAT THE HELL IS THE PROBLEM NOW?!"
Looking at him with crocodile tears running down his face Usopp held up a fish with tons two rows of teeth that looked like it was smiling at him, and said "Th-th-this wa-wa-wa-was i-i-i-in my p-p-pants." Usopp then finished by curling up into the fetal position, and rocking back and forth while muttering to himself about how scary sky island was.
Over to the side of the ship Uryu was standing next to Ulquiorra, Starrk, and Urahara as they watched this all happen with mostly blank expressions. Uryu finished watching the scene turned to the others next to him and said, "Well not that it matters at this point, but after watching this I find myself wondering, What kind of crew have joined, and what have we gotten ourselves into by joining them?"
Looking at him Ulquiorra kept his neutral expression as he replied "Well for once I agree with you trash. This is indeed the most unusual group of people I have ever seen in my life."
"Quit calling me trash you hollow bastard!" Uryu yelled back at him in return.
At this Starrk turned towards him and with a grimace on his face said "Are you really going there you damn Quincy, right now when all we have is each other and this simple little crew of people that has taken us in. Now you want to start a fight in a world we don't know with only about 20 percent of our power at our disposal, plus you are still one of the most injured people amongst us after that little fight you tried to have with Ulquiorra before we were hit over here in the first place. Hey look if you wanna die be my guest, but try not to drag the rest of us into your own little war."
As he said this there was a shout from chopper that caught everyone's attention. "Hey there is a ship, and a… person? Eh?"
"What is it Chopper?" Luffy asked as he saw Chopper's jaw drop just after saying that he had seen a ship. "Hey Chopper a ship you say is there a ship over there?"
"No" Chopper replied "There was a ship over there, but the ship is not there anymore."
"What do you mean Chopper? You're not making any sense." Sanji said as he looked at him.
Without thinking Chopper all of a sudden yelled "THERE'S A BULL CHARGING ON A RECTANGULAR CLOUD FROM OVER THERE! THIS IS BAD!"
Zoro who just wanted to go to sleep walked up to see what was going on just in time to see, and hear Choppers scream, and said "I don't get it; calm down Chopper." Though as Chopper just kept acting nervous Zoro soon got a tick mark on his head in annoyance.
He was just about to tell Chopper to shut up when all of a sudden Sanji said "Look there's someone coming, and they're running on the cloud!"
As he said this though that very person jumped off the clouds and sailed over the edge of the ship. Sanji who was closest simply said "Hey what's your problem?"
Ichigo was a little surprised to hear the hostility coming from the chef who the night before had done nothing but fawn over the women amongst the group that he was supposed to talk to. It was then that Ichigo heard the new guys reply to his answer, which was ironically spoken in very badly broken Japanese, "Destroy You All!"
Ichigo thought for a moment about making a move on this man, but stopped wanting to see first what the fighters on this ship were capable of. Seeing he was not alone with this decision as all the new people just watched as the new guy simply kicked all three of the best fighters on the ship down to the ground as all three tried to fight back. Ichigo just gave a grunt of disappointment at what he saw, but then everyone started to regret there decision as they saw the man jump off the deck into the air and aim what looked like a bazooka at the ship while saying "This is the end for you."
Before he could do pull the trigger though a man came flying towards him on a giant bird while holding a lance towards the man's chest. This forced the man in the bull's mask to pull up the shield he was holding to block the attack instead shoot the ship. When the strike connected with the man's shield it launched the man at rather amazing speeds right into the clouds that the ship was floating on. As the bull mask guy disappeared into the clouds, the guy who had sent him flying landed on the edge of the ship facing the clouds that he had shot the other man at.
"Who is it now?" Nami asked a little apprehensive of the fact that perhaps he too was an enemy.
Turning around so that everyone could see his face they were all surprised to see an old man standing before them. He had a pointed goatee, and a mustache to match it, both of these were white. He was built with a very wiry frame, and not many could actually tell if he had any muscle or if all his strength had simply come from the speed with which he had hit their previous attacker. He wore a suit of armor to cover his frame though it didn't look like it fit properly anymore, though at one time in his past he may have filled it out quite nicely. As he turned around he said "Me I'm the Knight of the Sky."
With that said he turned around and once again started watching to see if the other man came back. Nami looked down at Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro, and started to yell at them about how weak they were, while all three of them just seemed shocked and were muttering to themselves about how their bodies weren't following their commands. This was soon explained by Robin though as she reminded them that they were now several thousand feet in the air and the oxygen was quite a bit thinner than before. Thus they wouldn't be able to move as freely for a few minutes.
Bellamy who had been thinking up to this point that maybe he was mistaken in believing that Luffy's bounty was 100 million, realized that this was true, and that he too couldn't move as fast as he normally could. Even in his semi-injured state he should still have been able to keep up with the speed that the man who attacked them was moving at.
Thinking about it now Ichigo realized the same thing as Bellamy, and after taking a quick look at each other they both realized that the man would have killed all of them without even having to fight them. Feeling guilty for having left the fighting up to them Bellamy quickly stepped forward and apologized saying "Captain Luffy forgive, I'm a guest on your ship, and I owe you my life for having saved me, yet I did nothing to help. I am sorry."
He was quickly followed by Ichigo who said "I'm sorry too, I know I could have stepped up and stopped the guy, but I wanted to see whether you and your crew were skilled enough to help us."
Looking up from his spot on the floor Luffy only smiled and started to laugh in that unique way of his "Shishishishishi, its ok he said I want to see how tough you all are" he said looking at Ichigo and his crew which now seemed to envelope the arrancars that for some reason had started to start staying closer to them for numbers if not for anything else. Looking at Bellamy he smiled as he said "As for you as a guest aboard my ship you shouldn't have to fight anyway so no skin off of any of your backs guys."
As Luffy finished saying these things The Knight of Sky looked over his shoulder and said "After having listened to you just now I have to assume that perhaps maybe you all are citizens of the blue sea. Now before you ask," said the knight as he held up his hand to stop any questions that might be coming from the many people that had circled around him to hear what he had to say "the blue sea is the sea below the clouds. You are now in the White Sea, this is currently 7,000 meters above the ocean, above us another 3,000 meters, is the white white sea, The air up here is so thin that normal people from the blue seas can't actually stand it."
However contrary to his belief Luffy, and Zoro both said "Ok I'm starting to get used to it." This was followed a moment later by Sanji, and Bellamy who both said at the same time me too, this caused both of them to look at the other with a little bit of respect." Though Sanji's gaze was also a little wary of him since he had attacked his captain just the day before.
Bellamy feeling the slight bit of wariness that was laced into the gaze towards him looked away knowing it was justified. Bellamy was also slightly afraid of insulting anyone on this crew, here they were thousands of miles higher than his crew, and they were not likely to see him again until Saobody Archipelago. Not knowing what would happen to him he decided to just take a back seat for the ride to come and not stand in the way where he could possibly get hurt.
All of a sudden before anything else could happen, the old sky knight just looked at them and said "Lies you all must be lying because it's impossible to become accustomed to it so soon." However, the way he said it made it sound more like he was amazed that they could even manage to do that.
"Anyways" he said "I know you probably have a ton of questions, but first business. You see I'm a freelance mercenary, and this is a very dangerous sea. Anyone who doesn't know about aero battles will be attacked by people like the guy from earlier, and they will be left for sky-fish food. Each whistle will cost you 50,000,000 Aigusu, and then I will come to save you."
When he finished speaking everyone one the ship just stare at him like he had just spoken some kind of foreign language, it stayed like that for a while before the original crew all turned their heads to the side as if that would give them a better perspective. It didn't help surprising enough so Luffy as the captain asked "So umm what are you talking about Mr?"
Looking at him the old man said "Cut the crap. The price is cheap enough as is, I have living expenses too ya know."
Looking a little exasperated Luffy replied "That's why I'm asking what Aigusu is, and what the whistle thingy is?"
"No way you all didn't come through sky top? You must've at least visited an island or two by now right?" the sky night asked as his eyes got larger as he continued his statement going from being narrowed in wariness to wide open in wonder at the crew before him.
His thoughts were confirmed a few seconds later as Nami stepped forward and asked "Isn't there only one sky island?"
"How did you all get here?" Sky knight asked as he looked at those around him in wonder.
"We took the knock up stream." Said Grimmjow growing restless at the lack of action that was happening around him, and needing something to do other than just watch as he had been.
The sky Knight just stared straight at him like he was insane then, looking around the crew he asked "Who's the captain here?" to this Luffy raised his hand and a huge smile enveloped his face stretching far beyond what was possible for any normal man, though to Ichigo, and his friends it seemed as if they all knew one or two people who had a smile that large. "Wow you actually took that monstrous stream up here. I didn't think there was anyone left who were that brave."
At this point Nami started crying while muttering to herself "It wasn't the normal way up." Before Nami had even finished though she had turned around and started to shake Luffy back and forth like a doll while screaming at him "WE COULD HAVE DIED IF WE HAD GATHERED MORE DATA WE COULD HAVE USED A SAFER METHOD!"
Luffy managed to reply despite being shaken, saying "Who cares were all alive anyway." Nami looked at him, and blushed again even when she was mad, she couldn't seem to look at the boy in front of her without blushing. In her mind Nami started to berate herself Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Why can't you even look in his direction without acting like a little girl?
Looking down at the crew from where he now sat on the aft deck of the ship sky knight said "Did you all lose any crew on the way up here?"
"No" Luffy replied "we're all here."
"I thought as much." Said the sky knight "Other routes are not like this one, this is an all or nothing route that will either cost everyone to die, or allow everyone to make it here safely. To people these days that's just too much of a gamble, anyone who takes that path is someone I consider to be a true sailor." As he said this he tossed a whistle down to the deck where everyone was standing, Rukia being the closest picked it up and started to examine it. "The first ones a gift, blow it if you ever find yourselves in need of help, I'll come right away. Then with that he turned around and started walking towards the giant bird he had flown in on. "Oh I almost missed my introduction." he said as the bird started to change before their very eyes. "My name is Gon Kerr knight of the sky, and this is my partner Piy'Aher. He ate the wild horse fruit, and can turn into a hybrid between the bird, and the horse." he said as he jumped onto Piy'aher's back.
As the bird transformed Nami, Rukia, and Orihime all gasped out "A PEGASUS!" However, what greeted them was something entirely different. Before them, was Gon Kerr half sitting and half standing on the bird-horse hybrid. It was however not one of the majestic Pegasus that the crew had originally envisioned, no instead before them sat a polka-a-dotted horse with wings, though to call it a Pegasus would have been an insult to all pegasi around the world. What stood before the crew was by far the most hideous creature any of them had ever seen.
The whole crew sweat dropped. It couldn't be helped the whole situation was ridiculous even by the strawhat crews standards. There sat Gon Kerr on his bird hybrid, and taking such pride in the fact that he got to ride the creature. Ichigo just started to shake his head in pity for the old man who he thought was probably going senile in his old age. Grimmjow and Renji though were both staring in open shock at the man. Before anything else could happen the old man flew away holding his lance in the air in triumph.
As soon as he was gone both Renji and Grimmjow both started howling in laughter neither of them could stop either; they just found the whole situation to hilarious to talk about. Urahara himself was chuckling behind his signature fan enjoying the whole scene from beside his new friend Starrk the very man who had put him into this situation.
Rukia walked up next to Ichigo, and said "BAKA why didn't you stop him he could have given us better information!" as she finished Rukia was yelling at him, smacked him on the head.
This caused all of the one piece characters to look at the bleach characters in confusion, and Robin to ask "Rukia san what are you talking about? How could Ichigo have stopped him he literally flew away?"
Looking back at them as she said "Ichigo may not look it, but he is fast as well as strong, and has beaten many of us who stand before you know in battle, and those here who could possibly beat him are few. Even with our reduced power I would say Ichigo may be the third second strongest, or maybe third, just depending on how focused he is."
"Well that's a discussion for a different time." Urahara said from behind his fan once again as he watched the reaction of his new companions. "Right now we should continue on our journey to Sky Island." He said as he started to point up.
This caught the rest of the crews attention as they all realized what he meant, and started to look for a way to get the rest of the way to Sky Island. "I have an idea!" Luffy cried which caused Bellamy and the bleach characters to all look up to see if their new captain had good ideas every once in a while. They were all disappointed though when Luffy finished by saying "Let's call that old knight guy back and ask him." As he said this he started to get another of his face splitting grins to grow across his face while bringing the whistle to his lips.
This was stopped however, when Chopper, Nami, and Bellamy all grabbed his face and started to stretch it so that he couldn't blow the whistle, as Nami screamed something about that only being for emergencies. Ichigo didn't really pay much attention to the situation after he was sure that the captain wouldn't be wasting the whistle. He started to listen to the rest of the crew to see what he could do, he was mildly surprised when he heard the first mate Zoro scream out "Let's just get the ship moving." As he finished saying this the bleach characters were surprised when the goofy crew actually got to work and started to sail the ship towards some clouds that Chopper had noticed earlier.
Ichigo helped do some of the sailing, but for the most part he realized he really didn't need to since the crew knew what to do without the help of the new people. Thus Ichigo now found himself watching as the whole crew sailed the ship with the precision of a crew five times their size. He found himself rather impressed with it all until they got to the cloud and he saw the captain attack the cloud. "Idiot" he muttered to himself as he watched to the fist fly towards the cloud. However everyone was surprised when they saw Luffy's punch fly away. Ichigo just stared at the cloud as if it was from a different world. Though, the irony of the situation was of course that he was the one from a different world.
As Ichigo continued to watch Luffy jumped off the boat and onto the cloud. As he did this every one of the bleach characters got ready to go save him from his fall. If they were surprised when the cloud bounced his fist away though, they were flabbergasted when they cloud acted like a trampoline, and bounced Luffy around like he weighed nothing. Ichigo found himself intrigued by the clouds so he too jumped out onto the cloud. He was followed shortly thereafter Uryu and Urahara who both just to know more about the substance that the cloud was made up of.
As they stood there Urahara started to take a few samples of the cloud for future study, While Uryu started to check it to see about reiatsu for the future. Ichigo though, was just there to help keep order incase Luffy weird as he is to did something stupid. He was not needed though for the only thing that happened was Nami yelling at the group which by this point also included chopper and Usopp to find a way around the clouds.
So Ichigo went and got back on the boat thinking he was not needed where he was. He watched for a short time as the group on the clouds shouted directions to those on the ship, he even watched as Bellamy did as he was told by Zoro and later Luffy when he got back on the boat.
All the while Ichigo was trying to get as close to Halibel as possible. When he finally managed to get within talking distance he realized he didn't know what to say, and started to silently panic. Until Halibel noticed him standing next to her that is.
Halibel couldn't believe it. Here she was enjoying her day; and then the very boy who had made her day so good when he had saved her a few hours ago was standing next to her. She was amazed "This couldn't get any better." She found herself thinking to herself, but then she realized that nothing was happening, "Crap she thought is this, what they call an awkward silence? Should I say something to him, or should I simply just let things stay as they are now?"
That's when Halibel thought "What if he's just staying near me in case I start something? Does that mean he doesn't trust me? If that's the case though then why did he save me? And why did he complement my eyes?"
As all of this was going through Halibel's head, Ichigo was also experiencing stressful thoughts, "What do I say?" he thought "How do I start a conversation with someone who's supposed to be my enemy? Do I complement her again? Or should I perhaps ask her on a date? No it's too soon for that. I can't just start a random conversation about the weather here I mean we're pretty much part of the weather here it seems. Crap what should I say? AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" Ichigo finished by screaming in his head, though he didn't realize it he also let out a growl of annoyance, as his trade mark scowl found its way to his face.
Seeing this Halibel thought she had done something wrong so she did the first thing that came to mind. She asked. "Have I done something to you?"
Looking up Ichigo gave her a confused look and asked "No why would you ask that?" All the while he was thinking to himself, "Well at least we're talking, that's a start."
Standing nearby Rukia smirked hearing the conversation from where she had been conversing with Urahara and Renji as to how best to get back to their world. "Hey don't worry." She called over to Halibel, "That's his regular face, he's not mad it's just how he normally looks."
Laughing Renji joined in with his own comment saying "Don't let his ugly mug get to you I know it could scare the soul king back into his realm, but hey don't worry too much he's too pathetic to back up his looks."
At this Ichigo jumped up and said "What was that pineapple head? I couldn't hear you clearly; I was too busy being amazed that you actually managed to use your brain long enough to formulate words."
"SCREW YOU ICHIGO!" before anyone could stop them both of them jumped at each other and started fighting.
Zoro and Sanji walked up to where the fight was taking place, and were surprised to see them fighting each other. "Huh, how pathetic!" Sanji said as he watched Ichigo kick Renji in the stomach, and get a fist to his jaw in response. Zoro who was standing beside him with his hands close to his swords, in case things got out of hand, couldn't help but remark to the cook "Like you could do any better swirly brow."
"WHAT WAS THAT MOSS HEAD?!" Sanji screamed at him as he turned and prepared to kick him.
"Oh I was just commenting on how badly your fighting technique was compared to these guys." Zoro said with a smirk on his face still watching the fight. That is until Sanji kicked him in the gut, just as Ichigo had done a few moments earlier; and with that it was on.
"Crap!" said Nami and Rukia both as they watched the fights progress "Now there's two more of them."
The fights finally stopped after a few seconds though when the ship finally found its way out of the clouds only to see a giant sign above a gat in front of them that read Heaven's Gate. Looking at it Urahara couldn't help but say "Well that was unexpected I really didn't expect that."
Usopp who was shaking as he looked at it said "T-t-th-that' bad omen. It's like we're going to die"
Chuckling to himself with a little bit of an evil grin on his face, Zoro said "Ya that was not expected, but maybe we're actually dead already?"
Sanji hearing this said "That would explain this weird world we're in right now."
Chopper hearing this just screamed in fear "WE'RE ALREADY DEAD!?"
Looking at them Grimmjow just responded in mild surprise. "Wait do you mean to say that you all aren't dead yet" he asked as he looked at them. This caught most of the crews attention as they all started to look at the newest members of the crew.
"No we're not dead." Robin said as she looked at them. "Are you?" she finished.
"Umm Ya most of us are." Grimmjow said as he pointed to the whole in his stomach that had been out for everyone to see since he had landed earlier.
It was then that the crew noticed this and they started to look at the newcomers with fear as Nami screamed out "YOU'RE DEAD! HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN? AND WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?"
It was at this point that Urahara walked up to them and said "Well to tell you the truth we really don't know how we died, but like he said not all of us are dead with that he finished by pointing to Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, and Uryu "They are all alive for instance, though Kurasaki is in his spirit form." he finished this part by pointing to Ichigo. "We are soul reapers, or shinigami if you will." He said as he pointed to himself, Ichigo, Rukia, and Renji. "They are arrancars," he said pointing to Halibel, Starrk, Ulquiorra, and Grimmjow, "they used to be hollows which have been enemies of the shinigami since we were first created. Though now they have broken off parts of their mask for more power, and some of the abilities of us soul reapers. He is a Quincy," Urahara said as he pointed to Uryu, "and they are just gifted humans" Urahara finished by pointing to Orihime, and Chad.
Ad he finished Bellamy just looked at them and said "Well I won't lie I really didn't see that one coming." As he finished this most of the other straw hats looked at him, and some even started to agree with him.
However, before anything else could be said on the subject Luffy just got a dumb grin on his face as he said "Heaven… So funny we can finally get there through here." This caused everyone on the ship to just stop and stare at him, "Do you think that he even heard anything that was just said?" Bellamy asked as he stared at the idiot that had spared his life out of pity.