Luffy was not impressed. He had been happy when he found out he could bounce on the cloud earlier, however now he was kinda pissed. Standing in front of him and all of his crew and passengers was a little old lady with wings on her back. Now while this was cool enough for all of them, what she was saying was what was getting on everyone's nerves. She kept telling them that they had to pay to get into heaven. However, the price she was demanding was ridiculous. She kept demanding that they pay a billion Aigusu a piece.

Finally getting annoyed Nami said "We don't have any money, so do we have to turn around now that we have come all this way?"

The creepy old lady, who as Luffy had described quite accurately upon seeing her looked like an old dried up fruit candy, said " No you can go on up even if you don't have money. There are nineteen of you guy's right?"

"Yeah that's right how'd ya know that?" asked Renji quite impressed since four of those on the ship were in the ship rather than on the deck, and had been for quite some time.

His question was ignored by almost everyone as Nami said "Well if that is the case then we are going up." As she finished her statement two giant shrimp like creatures surfaced, and started to haul their ship up the river made of cloud beyond the gate leading up to heaven.

Below decks Chopper was showing Orihime the strawhats medical bay, and Usopp was showing Urahara the engineering room where he made most of his gadgets.

Urahara being who is was smiled when he realized that the room was really just a room to practice experiments of weapons that might be too dangerous to do anywhere else on the ship. With this thought on his mind he turned to Usopp, and said "I know this is mildly presumptuous, but do you think that I might be allowed to set up a lab here, from which I can test samples of the things that I find around your world, as well as weapons that I make?"

Usopp simply smiled a huge smile, as he replied "No, no not at all. So you're a fellow inventor as well huh, not to brag, but you know I once invented a machine that could take out a marine battleship."

Urahara simply looked at the young kid as he said that and replied with one simple question "How long did that take?" All the while he hid his growing amusement at the situation behind his fan.

Usopp being who he is of course came up with the most preposterous number he could think of at the time, and said "It took me thirty five years give or take a year."

Urahara just smiled behind his fan as he said "Oh really that's quite impressive. How old did you say you were again?"

Without thinking Usopp replied "I'm seventeen." As he finished though he realized his mistake and just stared at the man in front of him dumbfounded stupor at how ignorant he had just been made out to be. This of course had Urahara chuckling quietly to himself as he continued to walk around the little room, to see what all he would need to start conducting his experiments.

In the other room with Orihime, and Chopper, Orihime was currently squealing in a fan girlish type way as she sat there looking at how Chopper performed the maintenance of all of the equipment.

The Squeal of course got Chopper's attention as he turned to look at her with a worried expression on his face as he asked her "Are you all right? You didn't cut yourself on anything did you?"

Orihime blushed at her own stupidity, and said "No I am fine Chopper san." This was in her opinion one of the cutest tanuki's* she had ever seen. To see one speaking was also something that Orihime had dreamed about. Now that one was standing in front of her it was like one of her dreams had come true.

Chopper on the other hand was quite afraid of Orihime. Since they had picked up all of these new humans that he didn't know Chopper had been having a hard time staying near them, due to an uneasy feeling he got from the majority of them. This one in particular seemed to give off the most discomforting feeling of them all, and it was starting to get to Chopper. The only reason that she was even in his medical bay was because she had told him that she too was the healer on her little team. Thus he felt a small bit of kinship with the woman before him due to their common choice of profession.

"Besides" Chopper thought "Luffy seems to like all of them so they can't be bad people. Otherwise Luffy would have not let them get on board the ship. Even that Bellamy guy who he let beat him up the other day." Though, Chopper knew that Luffy wouldn't ever leave someone behind simply for such a stupid reason.

With that thought in mind Chopper said "Ok well this is it, so let's go back up to the top of the top deck, and see what's going on." With that done he then started to rush Orihime out of the room still not entirely trusting her around his equipment. Despite her claims at being a healer, Chopper still felt like she would break everything in the room if she tripped.

When they got to the top deck they found themselves to be one of the only ones left on board as everyone else had gotten off when they had come across the cloud island that they had been searching for the entire time. Chopper smiled he knew that when he joined the Strawhats he would have many exciting adventures. Alabasta had indeed been full of adventures, but this place promised to be even more fun than Alabasta, and now they had even more nakama to share the good times, even if the new nakama did seem to have some internal problems. Chopper could tell he smelled the fear, and determination on all of them. He had also seen the looks that they had been giving each other since they had joined the crew. With those thoughts in mind Chopper jumped towards the shore where he saw a commotion starting to take place.

On shore Starrk was observing quietly from the side as the strawhats met the sky island native, and her weird father who had crashed just coming to shore. Starrk was starting to feel tired, and wanted nothing more than to go somewhere quiet so that he could sleep in peace. He knew however, that this would most likely not happen anytime soon as he felt like things were about to start changing on this island, and not for the quieter.

Starrk had only felt this way twice before. The first time was just before he had met Aizen, and the second time was just before he was sent to go get that unique shinigami Urahara from the world of the living. To Starrk's chagrin he realized tha it would probably be like this the entire time they traveled with these Strawhat pirates. With this thought in mind Starrk turned to find the other Arrancar, and to make sure that they were all ok.

What he saw left him a little puzzled all the same. Since they had gotten here Starrk had noticed subtle changes in the other Arrancar. Ulquiorra for instance seemed more open, though that was only when he got close to the human woman. Halibel as well seemed different, she seemed kind of shy half the time, at first he had not understood what was going on, but then he had noticed it only seemed to happen when Ichigo was around. He didn't know what had caused this, but he was starting to wonder if the atmosphere here was affecting them in a way. Never before had he seen Arrancar show any emotion other than violence or fear. He decided he was going to bring up this little tidbit of information to the other Arrancar, and his new friend Urahara.

Starrk didn't necessarily like the way the man behaved around others, but Starrk knew better, he could see the hidden intelligence in the man's eyes. He could also, feel the power that resonated off of the man when he got serious. He had experienced the man's power before they had all been sent here. He also knew that he didn't want to fight the man when he got serious ever again. He didn't know if he could beat him if it came down to it. This made Starrk very careful about how aggressive he got against the soul reapers with them.

With that thought in mind Starrk started to look around for said man. However, Urahara didn't seem to be on the beach with everyone else. Closing his eyes Starrk started to feel for his spirit pressure hoping that it would be easy to find him. He was mildly surprised when he found Urahara to still be on the boat with a few others. Concentrating a little harder Starrk tried to find out who all was still there.

He wasn't surprised at what he found. With Urahara was the boats sniper, or so he claimed, Starrk was a little sketchy on the details, but he didn't know how someone could do much damage with a sling shot. The only other people on the ship were the little animal doctor and the girl Orihime. At this thought Starrk once again turned to his fellow espada. It was here that he noticed that while Grimmjow was paying attention for once, he was the only one as Halibel was off to the side by the substitute shinigami subtly giving him looks, and Ulquiorra who looked like he was listening had turned his body slightly too where he was facing the ship again. Starrk knew why as well.

With that thought in mind Starrk turned towards the ship and said "I'm goin back to take a nap." He didn't look over his shoulder as he took another step away before sonidoing back onto the deck of the ship.

As soon as his feet hit the deck he made his way to Urahara deciding that there was no time like the present to bring up this little development he had discovered.

Back on the beach Ichigo was staring at the captain as he was dragged back up onto the beach after having fallen off of the weird waver machine that the two sky island natives had shown them. He wasn't surprised when a few moments later the navigator Nami managed to actually sail the machine with very little problem.

Since they had gotten on the ship Ichigo had noticed how the crew seemed to be a group of very skilled individuals. Ichigo didn't personally know much about the stuff that went on around the ship, but he knew that everyone on the ship was incredibly skilled. The navigator for instance, had managed to keep the entire ship on the updraft stream thingy that had gotten them to the White Sea. Ichigo knew that no normal navigator would have been able to do that.

Knowing this Ichigo couldn't help but smile. He knew that they were all lucky to have actually been hit into one place, and in a place where there was such a skilled crew to help them in their journey's around the world.

It was also to luck that he accredited his chance to meet the arrancar Halibel. She was one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen. Unfortunately he never knew what to say when he was around her. Even now he was a little nervous to speak out loud on the off chance that he might say something to offend her, or the other arrancar. Despite the fact that two of them had tried to kill him in their past, Ichigo knew that to insult them was to also, insult the beauty that even now was standing next to him as everyone sat around the skypieans home. Ichigo had even gotten to walk next to Halibel on the way up and now he was even standing next to her. Without even realizing it Ichigo smiled at his situation.

However, everyone else in the room noticed him smile especially the newly arrived Urahara who had just walked in to see the smile.

Next to him Halibel saw the smile, and couldn't help but think to herself "He has a very beautiful smile. I wonder why he never actually smiles when he could get any woman he wants simply by smiling at them." She didn't realize that his smile was his due to his joy at simply getting too stand next to her. She couldn't help the next thought that went through her head though as she wondered quietly to herself "What else can you do with that mouth of yours Ichigo?"

Everyone was drawn out of their contemplations though as Bellamy, and Sanji both looked out of the window and shouted "HEY NAMI IS GONE!"

Luffy being who he is was still whining about how she deserved to be lost for being able to do better than he had at riding the waver said "Just let her be she is probably fine."

This thought process was cut short though when the skypiean Conis said "Father this is troubling she may have gone to the forbidden place."

"Your right my daughter, this is troubling. However, she may not have gone there." Replied Conis' father.

With everyone still looking at them Bellamy asked "Where might she have gone that has you guys so worried?"

Looking back over at them Conis said "She may have gone to god's land."

Tanuki- pretty much a raccoon.

Sonidoe- a move similar to shunpo, and hirenkyaku, it is a way to move faster than running by forcing spiritual pressure into ones feet, thus forcing their feet to push them further distances faster. It is the same with the other two moves.

There you have it everyone chapter three. I hope it's to everyone's liking. Also if you all like this story, you should check out my new story Lord of the One Piece. It's a crossover as you can tell can't wait to see what you all think of either story.

God bless everyone