Hi guys! It's been quite a long time since I last updated this story. I really do apologize for the extremely long wait! Now that I'm back, the SCP story will continue~! Oh! And due to reasons, I decided to give up on the filler arc and just go straight to Jaya, as you may have noticed from the change in both the title and the summary! Onwards to Jaya~! On that note...
*camera zooms back to reveal Coral tied up and on the edge of a cliff, Xion pointing her Keyblade at her*
Coral: *crying anime tears* Can you let me go now?!
Xion: No way! You deserve death for making us wait this long! And sending all those people after me! And skipping two arcs just because you don't feel like doing them!
Coral: NOOOOOO! SOMEONE SAVE ME!
*XION'S P.O.V*
It was quite an eventful trip, so to say. A lot of things happened over time since Robin joined us. The sheepful island, the ship graveyard... Yep. A lot of things happened during our time in the Grand Line that should not actually be happening, mostly. For instance, the ship falling from the sky.
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THE SHIP FALLING FROM THE SKY?!
"Hang on! Hold on to the ship!" Zoro shouted.
We all hung on to whatever was near us on the ship, preventing ourselves from being flung overboard, as a huge ship actually fell from the sky above us. Yes, a ship. Right over our head. In the middle of the sea. LIKE GRAND LINE ISN'T QUESTIONABLE ENOUGH!
"What?! What is it?! What is it?!" Nami asked in a panicked tone.
"A dream! This has to be a dream!" Usopp answered.
"A dream! Goo-!" Before Chopper was about to be relieved, he and Usopp headbutted each other.
"More stuff is falling! Be careful!" Sanji warned.
"Xion! Use your Dream Eaters!" Nami shouted.
"They can't pull the ship like this!" I exclaimed. "Luffy! We have to protect the ship or we'll sink!"
"Got it!" Our beloved captain was about to do his job, when a certain sniper caught his attention. "Usopp?"
Said sniper was sitting in a meditating position. "Cast aside your worries. Calmly close your eyes. When you open your eyes, a quiet morning lies before you." Instead of a quiet morning as he had hoped, Usopp screamed like a girl at the sight of a skeleton practically tossed to him. "BONES!"
"Idiot! Don't throw it here!" Nami shouted.
"More stuff's falling!" Sanji warned.
Some time later, things had finally settled down. No more things were falling on top of us, much to all of our relief.
"Why the heck did a ship fall from the sky?" Luffy asked.
"How weird..." Sanji stated.
"There's nothing in the sky," Zoro added.
"Just one of the many questionable things about this sea," I said.
"Oh man, the Grand Line is a crazy place!" Usopp stated. "First we see a Ship Graveyard inside a rainbow mist, and now a ship falls from the sky!" A small scream was heard from our navigator.
"What's wrong, Nami-san?" our chef asked.
"What are we gonna do?! Our Log Pose is broken!" she informed. "It's stuck pointing upwards!"
"That's not it," Robin corrected. "It was updated by an island with stronger magnetism."
"Wait, you mean there's such a thing as a sky island?!" I asked.
"A sky island?!" everyone else repeated.
"What's that?" Nami questioned.
"A floating island?!" Of course, Luffy would be really excited about this.
"D-Did that ship and those bones fall from there?!" our resident liar stuttered.
Zoro looked up. "But I can't see anything like an island in the sky."
"That's not it," Robin once again corrected. "To be more precise, a sea's what's floating."
Our ship's childish trio were all excited at those words.
"I'm getting more and more confused," Sanji said.
'When does the Grand Line ever make sense anyway?' I mentally asked.
"Yay! There's a sea with an island floating in the sky?! Alright! Let's head there right away!"
"Hey guys! Turn the rudder upwards full! Rudder upwards full!"
Two of the most childish of the trio shouted, seemingly to have forgotten one important detail. Robin used her devil fruit power to cover Luffy's mouth while I karate chopped Usopp on the head.
"We can't go up, bozos," I bluntly reminded.
"To be honest, I've never seen the sky island, nor do I know much about it," our archeologist added.
"Yeah! It's impossible for an island or sea to float in the air!" Nami said logically. "So the Log Pose really must be broken!"
"Nami, did you forget that logic doesn't work in the Grand Line?" I asked. The navigator flinched at the reminder.
"She's right, Navigator," Robin agreed. "Our concern right now is not the Log Pose, but how we get to the sky. No matter what weird situations this gets caught up in or how panicked we get, we must not doubt the Log Pose. This is an ironclad rule."
"No matter what logic you know of, here in the Grand Line, there's no such thing as logic. As surprising as it is, it might not be that uncommon for there to be an island in the sky."
"Then Xion! How about we use one of those spares you have?!" Nami suggested.
"You say that and all but..." I looked over to the more hyperactive member of the group. "I've a feeling someone is going to break them the same way they did back at Whiskey Peak." Seeing my point, Nami gave up on logic, for now.
Later, we picked up a coffin that fell on our ship. Without any hesitations, Robin opened it.
"What's she doing, Xion-nee?! Opening a coffin!" Chopper asked, attempting to hide behind the mast. Nami also hid behind it, trying to tinker with her Log Pose.
Robin picked up some pieces of a bone and seemed to be trying to put them back together.
"Can you learn something from that?" Zoro asked.
"I don't know," she answered.
"You got some strange tastes!" Nami accused.
"A pretty woman and the dead, now that's an interesting combination," Sanji wooed.
I noticed we were missing a few people and looked and saw the said duo on the sky-fallen ship. "I'll watch over Luffy and Usopp. Something tells me they'll get in trouble," I told them. With that, I followed them onto the wrecked vessel.
"What are you two doing here?" I asked them. "You know this ship is going to sink soon."
"Well yeah, but we figured we can at least find something useful in here. Like an Eternal Pose to the island or maybe a map," Usopp said.
"Hey Usopp! I found something!" Luffy called. "Ah! Xion too! Just in time! Look at this!"
I assumed whatever it was would be cool to Luffy and Usopp but looked anyway. Imagine my surprise when I saw what he found. "A Dream Eater Recipe?!"
"And two of them at that!" Usopp added.
"Right?!" Luffy asked.
"I'm impressed, Luffy. You actually found something good for once."
"I wonder what Sanji can make with these~"
Usopp and I hit him hard on the head. "And just when I thought you were making sense!" he shouted.
"You found something good but for the wrong reason!" I followed, snatching the recipes out of his hand.
"Now then! Let's see what else we can find!" our simple-minded captain said, already venturing deeper in the ship.
"By the way, is it just me, or does it feel like the ship is sinking?" Usopp asked, as we followed him deeper in the ship. We heard the sound of something hitting water and looked down to see our feet in water. Not only that but it was entering from the floor- Wait. Wouldn't that mean?
"Luffy! Forget your adventure! This ship is sinking!" Usopp called.
"Hey! Look at what I found~!" the boy instead called back.
"For goodness sake! Let our words enter your ears you idiot!" I snapped, running to our captain, grabbed him by his shirt and ran out of the sinking vessel, Usopp following me.
We just made it out of the ship and back on our's. Once we set foot, I tossed our captain to the rest of our crew. "You just love to cause problems for us, don't you Luffy?" I growled.
"What happened to you?!" Nami asked.
"What do you think?!"
"Hey guys!" Luffy shouted, grabbing our attention. "I found something incredible! Look!" He had a piece of paper in his hand, rolled up. He unrolled the paper, revealing it to be a map.
Much to our surprise, it was- "A map of the Sky Island?!"
"Skypeia," Nami read. "Does this mean there really is an island in the sky?"
The simpleton trio all cheered at the question and evidence. "Yeah! The Sky Island exist! It's a dream island! We can go to a dream island!" one of the three cheered.
"Don't get so carried away. This only means it might be possible. There are tons of fake maps out there." As Nami said that, the cheers turned into extreme depression. At their new expressions, Nami quickly added, "Er... Sorry! It exists! I'm sure it exists! But..." And instantly, she and Luffy were in a heated argument. "Listen Luffy! I'm telling you we don't know how to get there!"
"You're the navigator! Figure something out!"
"There are some things you can't just 'figure out', you know!"
"I don't care! We're going to the sky!"
Their squabble was getting even more annoying by the second, it was making me snapped. "ENOUGH!" I shouted. "This is getting us nowhere. In any case, we can't bring the ship to the sky like this. If anything, we can't go anywhere like this. What we should do is gather information. If a ship like that can get to the sky, then our ship should too. There should be some more information about it from that ship."
"But it sunk completely," Usopp reminded.
"If it sinks we'll just salvage it!" Nami suggested.
"Oh yeah!" he and Luffy cheered, equipped with fishing gear.
"Not like that!" I smacked them.
"As if we could!" Zoro shouted.
"What's salvage?" Chopper asked Robin.
"It means to pull up a sunken ship," she explained.
"Since the ship is too big, though, it's impossible to pull it up," I pointed out. "Which is why instead, we will just go down there and gather information."
"How?" Usopp asked.
Later, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji and I were in barrel suits. No this wasn't my idea; this was Nami's. With us was my Fin Fatale, Torpedo.
"Well, well... You really make us do reckless things," Luffy stated.
"Nami-san! I'll be sure to find out a clue to the sky!" Sanji said.
"I'm counting on you!" Nami said.
"Worry not! There are no defects in my design!" Usopp boasted.
"Why am I going with them?!" I demanded.
"You're the responsible one," the members not coming replied.
Just then, a huge fish came out of the ocean and at a passing seagull.
"Well then... I wish you good luck!" Nami said, pushing us to the sea below. Torpedo just followed after us, more specifically me.
*ON DECK**GENERAL'S P.O.V*
"This is Chopper. Everyone, please respond," the man-reindeer spoke.
"This is Luffy. There are tons of monsters down here, over," Luffy replied.
"Is this a sea king's nest?" Zoro asked.
"This is Sanji. Whoa! They looked this way!" Sanji called.
"Help us out, Torpedo!" Xion commanded her fish Dream Eater.
"Okay," Nami simply nodded.
"Okay?!" Usopp gasped in shock.
"They'll survive. Don't worry. Chopper. Hold the brake tight, okay?" Chopper nodded to her demand.
"I'm glad I didn't go," Usopp sighed in relief.
Seconds later, they heard the sound of people chanting, "Salvage, salvage."
"What the heck is that?" Usopp wondered.
"Company halt!" came a voice from the ship.
"Aye, aye, sir!" agreed the crew members.
"Is this the place where the ship sank?!"
"Aye, aye, sir! Boss!"
"By boss... They mean me!" Out came a monkey-like man wearing an orange jumpsuit with a picture of what seemed like a monkey's face on it. "Prepare to salvage the ship! That ship belongs to me, the king of salvagers and the boss of the Masira Pirates!" Soon as he said that, his crewmates all acted like monkeys and picked up a weapon.
"Oh boy... Weirdoes at a time like this," Nami muttered.
The monkey-like man noticed the remaining Straw Hats. "Hey, you! What are you guys doing there?! This is my turf!"
"Your turf?"
"That's right. Every ship that sinks in this territory belongs to me. You haven't touched anything that's mine, have you, huh?!"
"Looks like he's going to salvage the ship," Robin observed.
"Yeah. That's what it sounds like," Usopp agreed.
"Then what? Doesn't this work for us?" Nami asked the group.
"Quit mumbling! Answer my question!" Masira demanded.
Nami raised a hand and called, "Excuse me! Can I ask a question?!"
Unexpectedly, he replied, "You're asking me a question?! That's fine. Ask me anything!"
Unnerved by the sudden change in behavior, Nami continued, "It looks like you're going to salvage a ship. Is that right?"
"'Looks'?" Rather than answering her question, Masira rubbed his face and asked, "Do you really find me that monkeyful?"
"'Monkeyful'?"
"It means 'handsome'. Do you think so?" Although unsure how the subject changed, the Straw Hat navigator said that he does. Masira blushed at the suppose cmoment. "Oh come on! Stop it~!"
"But there isn't such a word, is there?" Usopp muttered. "So are you gonna salvage it?!"
"Of course! If there's a sunken ship in front of me, I'll salvage it! I'm that kind of man! If it's on the water, I'll sink it then salvage it! I'm that kind of man! There's no ship that we can't salvage!"
Having a funny feeling that something would happen if they say they were going to salvage the ship as well, Nami asked, "Then... is it okay if we watch?"
"Hm? Oh, I see. Is salvaging new to you?" He let out a small laugh. "Okay! Go ahead and observe!"
"Alright. Let's wait and see how things go, guys," she whispered to the rest of the Straw Hats.
Just then, a crew member of the Masira Pirates shouted, "Boss! We have a problem!"
"What's wrong?" their captain asked.
"The members who went into the sea to set the cradle are...!"
"Did they get hurt by Sea Kings?" he assumed.
"Well... it looks like they were beaten up by someone."
"What?! Are you saying there's someone down there in the sea?!"
Nami and Usopp flinched at those words.
"Those idiots..."
"This isn't good..."
Masira turned back to them. "Then... Hey, you guys!" The two flinched even more so at his tone. "There's someone in the sea! Be careful!"
"O-Okay!" Nami responded.
'Good thing he's an idiot,' Usopp thanked whatever star they were born under.
"Guys! Hurry up and set the cradle! Let's start salvaging!" Masira ordered his crew.
"Aye, aye, sir!"
*BACK UNDER THE SEA*
The four strongest Straw Hats were steadily sinking deeper in the water, getting closer to the ship after dealing with the sea kings. Along the way, Xion may have had her suit destroyed while fighting, so she had used her wind magic to create an air bubble for herself and using Torpedo to bring her closer to the ship.
Once they arrived, the four, five including the Dream Eater, went to four different ways. Torpedo, of course, went with Xion.
The two of them swam around, and arrived at what seemed to be the crew's headquarters. The two looked around and saw nothing that seemed useful. At least, Xion thought there was nothing useful. Torpedo dragged her to what seemed like a chest. She tried to open it, only to find it locked. Unlocking it with her Keyblade, she opened the small chest and saw nothing but a seashell.
"There's really nothing here," she said. Torpedo seemed to have disagreed and made a gesture to take it. "I guess it's better than nothing though." Xion took the sea shell and pocketed it.
The two swam to the next room, which seems like the captain's quarters. In it were Luffy, Zoro and Sanji. The swordsman was getting a chest open with a torpedo. Before Xion could speak, he successfully broke the lock and opened the chest. Within it was nothing but a feather.
Suddenly, before they could do anymore investigating, something big was getting hooked onto the ship, much to their surprise and shock.
*ON THE SURFACE*
"What's going on?!" came Luffy's shout.
Nami and Usopp instantly covered the speakers just as Masira was looking over to them, where he heard the voice.
It was silent. Most of the Straw Hats were nervous about the situation at hand. A certain master of lies seemed to have saved the day. "... With that monkey? What's going on with the monkey?!" He pointed at the Masira Pirate's figurehead.
"Oh that? You have discerning eyes. You're right; this is no ordinary prow," Masira answered, oblivious to the cover up as the Straw Hats, minus Robin, sighed in relief. "Launch Barco-Hunter!"
"Aye, aye, sir!" his crewmates replied. All of a sudden, the figurehead was removed from its spot and was lowered into the water.
"Whoa! Amazing!" Chopper stated.
"It's really amazing!" Usopp agreed.
"What is?" Nami asked.
A crew member analyzing the figurehead approaching the sunken ship was giving updates to his captain. "Target is within forty meters... Thirty meters... twenty... ten... Barco-Hunter joint... complete!"
"Alright then! I'll start blowing air!" Masira announced, holding a tube in his hand.
"Aye, aye, sir!"
"What? No way..." Nami spoke in disbelief. "Is he going to breathe into that and lift the ship up?! That's crazy!" She was proven wrong as Masira, after taking in a very deep breath, started to breathe air through the tube.
"The ship's body has risen!" announced a Masira pirate.
"Now! Pull it up!" the monkey-like captain ordered his men. They all obliged and did what they could to successfully salvage the ship. Just then, a scream was heard.
"Boss! The crew that's in the water...!" one of his underlings spoke.
"What's wrong?! What happened, guys?!" Masira demanded.
"There's someone in the ship!" one of his underwater pirates answered.
Hearing those words made Masira snap. "How dare they hurt my guys?! Who the hell are they?!"
The Straw Hat pirates on Merry flinched once more at his tone... when they noticed something off.
"Well, we're not taking pictures or anything, so..." Nami spoke.
"What?!" Masira gasped.
"Oh, he posed for us to take pictures," Usopp said.
"Boss! Help!" came the shout of one of the underwater Masira Pirates... which then ended with a scream.
"I'm coming! Keep on working the salvaging operation!" Masira replied and ordered.
"Aye, aye, sir!" they saluted, as their captain jumped into the ocean.
This worried Nami, Usopp and Chopper. Not for Masira's health, but for the fact that this would most likely make them enemies if he finds out four of their crew were trying to salvage the ship, or at least get information from it.
*MEANWHILE, IN THE SHIP**XION'S P.O.V*
"See? We're fine without the barrel," Luffy said, taking off his barrel suit.
While we were still inside the sunken ship, gathering information, to our shock, someone was trying to salvage the ship themselves. Not only that, but they managed to pump some air in here. Some slightly weird-smelling air.
"It's amazing that they pumped this much air," Zoro said.
"But who's trying to salvage this ship?" I asked, petting Torpedo.
"Something might have happened to Nami-san and Robin-chan," Sanji said, obviously worried for the other females of our crew. "I've been calling them but no response!"
Before any of us could say anything, some guy looking like an ape barged in. "Who the hell are you?! Invading my turf!"
It didn't take me long to realize why no one on our ship answered Sanji. 'He must be one of the people trying to salvage this ship. Nami and the others must've wanted to play dumb so we wouldn't get into any conflict with them,' I assumed.
"Hm?... Oh, it's a monkey," Luffy stupidly assumed.
'I GET HE LOOKS LIKE A MONKEY, BUT-!'
Before I could finish my thoughts, the monkey-like man blushed and smiled. "What? Am I that monkeyful?"
'Huh?'
"Yeah. You're an imitation monkey," my captain simply answered.
"What kind of conversation is that?" Zoro started to question.
"What do you mean?"
"By the way, who are you?" Sanji asked.
"I see... What can I say?" the monkey-like man asked. "Do you really think so? You have a good eye."
"That doesn't answer the 'who are you' question," I pointed out.
Minutes later, don't ask me how it came to this, but Luffy and the monkey-man, now known as Masira, were having a joyful conversation.
"I see! You guys came from the East Blue, huh?!" Masira asked.
"Yeah! But really, you look just like a monkey!" Luffy replied.
"Quit complimenting me!" Although it should've been an insult, for some reason, Masira took it as a compliment. Saying something like being a monkey means being handsome.
All of a sudden, everything went dark.