I've honestly nothing to say for this chapter, other than there will be a Dream Eater challenge in here. And this time, Xion won't be the one doing it. Let's see how this will go~
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or Kingdom Hearts. I do not own Guthrie and, soon to join, Allen. Well, actually I kind of do own him.
*OPENING*
Let's fly to the sky
(The sun rises as Merry sails across the ocean)
There's not a single cloud in the sky
(All the current Straw Hats watched the sun rises, Luffy on the figurehead)
Let's fly to the sky. (It's time to fly around) Catch the perfect breeze for you
(The camera faces the sky as the title appears on the screen)
Paint the sky with (Let's go to the wonder world) imagination that no one's ever seen
(Camera faces back to the Going Merry as everyone went on with their peaceful business)
OH! OH! Even if it's too dazzling (Come on)
(Xion looked up and saw Marines ahead of them and warned everyone)
OH! OH! under the sun
(They all prepared themselves for battle. Marines fired cannon balls at them)
OH! OH! If it's you, you can make it! Throw away your pride and FLY!
(Luffy, Zoro and Sanji sent the cannons back at them. Usopp fired a cannon of their own with Xion, in her Wisdom Form, unleashed Triple Firaga at them, followed by a Thundaga, clearing their path)
Everyday is plain!
Real talent makes the world go round
(Going Merry sailed through the smoke. Everyone looked content as they enjoyed the sea breeze)
Deceit won't work anymore.
(Scene changed to Jaya in Mock Town, as camera faced each of the Blackbeard Pirates.)
Mayday, the red light is stopping you too
(Scene changed to Cricket's home, showing Cricket with Masira and Shojo side by side.)
Lend me an ear! And I'm gonna stick on my RAP! Wussup!
(Guthrie fights against some pirates and Heartless. One tried to sneak up on him and Chirithy knocked it away.)
"From tomorrow on I'll get serious!"- seriously cut it out with excuses like that
(Allen danced as he dodged the attacks of the pirates and attacked them at the same time)
Increase your money with your dream! Time is money like NASDAQ!
(The Straw Hats looked at Cricket's gold and searched for the South Bird)
When will you do it boy? It's now or never man! This is the moment, right?
(The crew then arrived at the Knock Up Stream and went to the skies.)
Everybody put ya hands in the air and clap ya hands like this like that
Clap ya hands everybody! Everybody just clap ya hands!
(Scenes quickly changed to different scenes. Xion and Guthrie crossed blades, Luffy's one-hit KO on Bellamy, the group trying to catch the South Bird, then finally their first encounter with the Shandia Warriors)
Let's fly to the sky (It's time to fly around) Catch the perfect breeze for you
(The Straw Hat Pirates arrived on Skypiea and were approached by the White Berets and fought them)
Paint the sky with (Let's go to the wonder world) imagination that no one's ever seen
(Scene changed to the group in the Upper Yard fighting against Heartless, Shandians and Priests)
OH! OH! Even if it's too dazzling (Come on)
(Scene changed to Xion fighting against a blonde Organization XIII member with knives and lightning magic)
OH! OH! under the sun
(Changed to Guthrie and Allen teaming up against the Nobodies)
OH! OH! If it's you, you can make it! Throw away your pride and FLY!
(Changed to Luffy battling Enel. In a flash of light, opening ends with all of Straw Hats on Merry, facing the camera)
Last time:
*WITH GUTHRIE'S GROUP*
"Say... This ground..." Robin said, inspecting the land they were on.
"What about it?" Nami asked.
"It's dirt."
Nami didn't see where she was going with this. "Well yeah. This is an island."
Guthrie realized what their archeologist meant. "This is sky island. Dirt shouldn't exist here."
Zoro caught on to what they meant. "Oh yeah. This part isn't fluffy," he said, tapping the ground.
It took Nami a few more seconds to remember an important fact about sky island. "Oh right! Sky island are islands made of cloud. It feels like a long time since I've felt dirt like this. Why is this island different?"
"In any case, it's certain that this is an unusual sky island. Looks like checking into it might be worth a lot," Robin said.
*WITH CHOPPER AND CHIRITHY*
The two ran to the stairs where it fell and saw it at the last step.
"You go get it, Chopper," Chirithy said.
"Why me?!" the man-reindeer demanded.
"Well, why should it be me?!"
"You can disappear whenever you want without getting eaten!"
"Not all the time! There's a limit to what Dream Eaters can and can't do! Besides, you were the one who dropped it!"
*BACK TO LUFFY AND THE OTHERS*
"Luffy!" Xion shouted, as Gunma flew her over to their opponent, the girl with a big magic spell prepared. "Let's see if he can dodge this! Tripe Firaga!" She shot out a trio of fire magic at Satori, which proved to be futile, as he avoided all three fireballs and tossed Luffy to her and Gunma. The two pirates collided and crashed into a tree, with the Dream Eater forced to release its master. Before they had the chance to recover, Satori unleashed a barrage of the palm strikes at them. Once he ended his assault, Luffy's head was stuck in a tree and Xion was holding her chest, blood seeping out of her mouth. The pirate captain struggled to get his head out of the tree and the vice used Curaga to heal herself back to full health.
"Hoh hoh hoooo! How stubborn," Satori stated.
All Xion could do was glare at the priest, wondering what they can do to defeat him.
"Don't be in such a rush. Stay for a while," Satori told Luffy and Xion.
The Straw Hat captain still tried to get his head out, while Xion was thinking of a plan to at least land a hit on the priest before them. She noticed Gunma flying over to Satori, attempting to attack him from behind.
'He can't possibly concentrate if multiple people attack him at once!' she hoped, as she tossed a Strike Raid at the priest.
She was either proven wrong or it was just a coincidence, but the guy just leapt over her Keyblade and had it struck Gunma instead.
"Oh no!" she cried out. Satori then kicked one of the cloud balls at her. Xion leapt up to avoid it, only for it to explode when it hit the ground, forcing her back.
"Now then, where are the other two? I won't let a single one escape!" Satori said. He spotted Sanji running. "Here we are."
"Hey! You see it, Usopp?!" the chef called to the sniper, who was hiding in the trees, searching for their borrowed vessel.
"... Found it!" he called.
"Gimme directions!"
"Straight ahead! Climb up the tree after the next one! You can jump onto it from the branches!"
"Got it!" With those directions, Sanji dashed to the designated tree to get to the Crow.
As he climbed the tree, Satori approached them from another one of his balls. Usopp noticed them and panicked. "It's him! What's he up to?!"
As if to answer his question, Satori kicked the ball to Sanji.
"Look out, Sanji! There's a ball headed your way!" Usopp warned.
Hearing that surprised the pirate chef. "What?! What the hell is Luffy doing?!"
The two male pirates could only watch as the ball headed straight for Sanji, letting out whatever sort of surprise it had for him. Or so they thought, as it hit another ball and was redirected away from the chef.
"Surprise Billard!" Satori called out, the ball now making its way to Usopp.
The sniper panicked at the true target, as Sanji cried out his name. Usopp tried to jump off the branch to avoid it, but because of his long nose, the ball still made contact with him. 'It's gonna explode!' he inwardly screamed-
*POP*
-for nothing, as only a flower came out of the ball.
Of course, Usopp was dumbfounded at the scene. 'A 'pop'?!'
"Hmm... A dud," Satori simply said. Despite that, Usopp still took a lot of pain. How? Well, he did jump off the branch he was on, which resulted in him hitting the ground hard.
"You idiot!" Sanji shouted.
Xion, after somehow managing to protect herself with her Reflect magic, chased after Satori. Considering that Luffy was still out of commission, she knew the priest would go after Sanji and Usopp. As soon as she arrived, she saw Usopp on the ground, unconscious.
"Usopp!" she cried out, running to his side. "Come on, stay with me! Curaga!" She used her healing magic and helped Usopp with his injuries.
As soon as he was better, Usopp regained his conscious. "Ahhh! That was dangerous! I thought I was gonna die!" he shouted.
"Gum Gum... Gatling!" The two looked up as they heard that familiar voice and saw Luffy, who finally freed himself from the tree, using his multiple punching attacks at the priest. And he was a fool to do so, not because Satori would've still avoided the punches, but because...
"You idiot! Stop hitting the balls!" Xion shouted, taking cover from behind a tree.
The pirate captain realized his mistake too late, for a bunch of the balls were hitting each other randomly. "W-What the-?!"
"Oh no! Too late!" Usopp cried out.
"Careful! They're coming from all directions!" Sanji warned.
Of course, Satori was the only one who was unaffected by the scene before him. "Hoh hoh hoo. You people are fun," he commented, jumping from one ball to another to a safe zone.
Meanwhile, the Straw Hats prepared themselves to avoid the cloud balls headed their way. Sanji jumped to avoid one that had spears pop out, and another that had a huge crab inside. Usopp avoided four at once and ducked for cover, only for four birds to pop out, singing. Just as he was about to sing with them, one of the birds hit a bell and all four just assaulted the boy. Luffy... Well, one of the balls had fireballs in it and the Straw Hat pirate was unfortunate enough for one of those balls to hit him... in the butt... Now he was just running around like a chicken without a head, looking for something to put out the fire. With little to no care for his inability to swim, out of desperation, he jumped into the cloud river to put the fire out. Well, at least he tried to, only to end up in a sky sea serpent's mouth. Good news, fire was put out; bad news, he may have had his butt bitten in the process, bringing more pain to him as he jumped out of the now-dead serpent's mouth.
Xion could only watch from her position behind a tree, safe from the balls. "The idiot..." she breathed.
Luffy then fell in and through the cloud river.
"Luffy! Don't fall into the river below! There might not be a bottom!" Sanji warned.
The rubber pirate seemed to have heard him and stretched out an arm to a branch. More specifically, one where Xion was. He grabbed her ankle and pulled himself up. Well, he was actually pulling her down and would've succeeded in pulling them both back to the Blue Sea, had the Keyblade wielder not stabbed her Keyblade on the branch to prevent that. In turn, Luffy himself was pulled up and on the branch.
"Thanks Xion!" he said, unaware that he almost pulled them both into the bottom sea.
Xion slowly climbed back on the branch she almost slipped off of and glared at her captain. "'Thanks' my ass!" She whacked him in the face so hard with Desert Nakama, Luffy was knocked off and falling back to the cloud river.
As Luffy fell, he saw a vine nearby and quickly stretched his arm towards it, pulling himself away from the cloud. Not only that, but the boy was now having some fun swinging around, even adding in the jungle cry.
"Are you stupid?!" Xion and Sanji both demanded with shark-like teeth.
Back to Usopp, he somehow managed to give the birds a good beating to the head, knocking them all out. Or rather, just a hammer to each head. He then heard Luffy having fun and looked up to see him swinging around the jungle. This gave him an idea.
"Oh! I didn't think of that! Now I can actually try it out!" he said. He opened his pouch and took something out.
This didn't go unnoticed by the other Straw Hats.
"Do you have an idea, Usopp?!" Sanji asked, as their sniper climbed up a tree and on a branch.
With a serious look, he replied, "I sure do! I'm known as the greatest pirate inventor! I'll show you my latest weapon: Usopp Aa-aa-aa!"
'Why do I have a bad feeling about this?' Xion wondered, just from the name itself, and the belt-like accessory around Usopp's waist.
"Uh, what?" Sanji questioned.
"Just watch!" Usopp placed his goggles over his eyes and got a good view of the Crow. "There it is! On the river straight ahead!" Removing the goggles, he claimed he could make it over there and fired a rope from the belt. "Alright, now it's just a straight line to the Crow! If it goes any further in, we won't be able to get it! I can't let this chance go!"
Both Sanji and Xion were impressed that their engineer had a decent idea to their ride.
"Wow, not too shabby. Watch out for the balls!" the former warned.
"I ain't gonna screw up! You can call me the King of the Jungle!" Usopp claimed.
"Then go for it, king!" Xion told him, thinking that her bad feeling was a false alarm.
"Here goes! Usopp Aa-aa-aa!" He kicked himself off the branch and started to swing over to the Crow. As he had predicted, he arrived just above their vessel.
"Yes! Perfect! Get on board and stop the boat!" Sanji told him.
For some reason, though, Usopp has yet to get on. If anything, he seemed to be struggling with his new invention.
"What's wrong, Usopp?" Xion called.
"Well, you see... I forgot that the rope is attached to the belt, so I can't get down!" he explained.
"Then take off the whole belt!" The advise came too little too late, for Usopp was swinging away from the Crow, making her face-palm. She then hit her head against the tree she was on, as she saw Usopp try to get back on the branch he was previously on, only to not reach it and continue swinging.
'My god damn bad feeling was spot on...' she thought, as she tightened her grip on Desert Nakama irritatedly at the stupidity of half her group. Sanji also clenched his fists in the same irritation as her.
"Luffy... Usopp..." Xion called, a dark expression on her face.
"We would like to have a word with you two," Sanji said with the same expression.
*A FEW MINUTES OF BEATING LATER*
Both Luffy and Usopp stood bruised and beaten before Sanji and Xion, the chef blowing out some smoke.
"You understand? We'll forget what happened just now had happened. Just listen to what we say," Xion calmly told them, polishing her Keyblade.
"Yes! I'm sorry!" Luffy nodded.
"I'm sorry..." Usopp followed.
"Forget about the boat. We all have to attack him at once!" Sanji told them. "I don't care if he is a priest; if we all attack at once, we're sure to find a way to beat him!"
"Beat me?" came Satori's voice. All four pirates were on alert the moment they heard his voice.
"Where'd he go?!" Luffy asked, as they all looked around to find the priest.
Satori appeared from above and landed right behind Sanji. Xion was the first to notice. "Sanji, behind you!"
All three boys heard her shout and turned, but they were too late, as the priest did that palm attack again on Sanji. The chef hit the tree and fell on the ground, unconscious.
"Hoh hoh hoo! Life is suffering... Now, you three are next!" he claimed, looking at the remaining pirates.
*WITH GUTHRIE AND THE OTHERS*
The group of two guys and two girls continued to walk through their part of the woods to find the God or learn more of Upper Yard, Nami thought she saw something from a distance.
"Hey, did something move over there?" she asked the boys.
"Dunno," Zoro answered.
"Sure it wasn't some kind of wild animal?" Guthrie asked back.
"Not sure. What about you Robin?" Nami then asked their archeologist.
"I didn't see a thing," she shrugged.
"Then I guess it was an animal..."
"Say, do you think we should check the other shore after all?" Robin then asked.
"No way! What if we get attacked by sharks again?!"
"By 'we', you mean 'you'," Guthrie muttered.
"Man, you're hopeless," Zoro also muttered.
*WITH CHIRITHY AND CHOPPER*
The two small members of the crew continued to argue about who would get the hammer for a little while. Both then decided to settle it with a game of rock-paper-scissors, which was ironic, considering neither had thumbs, or even fingers. Despite that, Chopper was the one who lost the game and chosen to get the hammer back.
"I can't go near like this... I promised Zoro I'd fix the ship too..." Chopper said.
"Do your best~" Chirithy cheered, away from the railing closest to the stairs.
"At least help me get the hammer!"
"I don't want to die!"
"How do you think I feel?!" Finding that continuing the argument won't do any sort of good, Chopper gathered as much courage as possible and slid down the rails... quite noisily.
'He does realize that noise is going to make them notice eventually, right?' Chirithy wondered.
Chopper got to the last step and slowly walked over to the hammer. Once he had it in his hand/hooves, he was about to make his way back to the ship, when a bird's caw was heard, freaking him out. Chirithy also got scared, but he managed to keep his scream in. The Dream Eater looked around the area, hoping Chopper didn't alert the sharks.
"Chopper! Hurry up an-!" Chirithy was cut off as a sky shark leapt out of the water, mouth wide open to gobble up the man-reindeer. Luckily, the pirate doctor managed to avoid getting eaten and sat on the shark's snout. Said sea creature tried to shake him off by shaking his head.
"Chopper! Run!" the Dream Eater shouted, frantically waving his arms.
The man-reindeer did as told and rushed back to the ship, stopping at the mast, panting quite heavily. He tilted his head upwards and noticed the one saving grace left on the ship. "The whistle!"
"Huh? What about it?" Chirithy asked. Chopper placed it around his neck and the Dream Eater remembered what the whistle was meant for. "Wait! You can't take that!"
"Why not?!" the Devil Fruit user asked.
"Because, what if an enemy comes and stops you from blowing into it?!"
"But if that's true then we can't just leave it here!"
"Then let me have it! At least I'll be able to disappear and protect it then!"
Chopper thought about it and found that to be true. "Yeah. I guess-" He stopped himself when he realized something else. "Hold it! How do I know if you won't leave me to die?!"
"Huh?! What are you talking about?!" Chirithy questioned.
"You can't fight like Xion-nee's Dream Eaters! How do I know you won't poof away with the whistle the moment God or one of those priests comes?!"
"Then what about you?! How do I know you won't escape with the whistle while my back is turned?!"
"And why would I do that?!"
"As payback for winning that rock-paper-scissors!"
As the two continued to argue over the whistle, something was flying towards them. Chopper was the first to notice. "What is that?" Chirithy looked and also noticed the object flying towards them.
"Is that... a bird?" he guessed.
The bird got close to them, giving them a good view of it and the person riding it. The guy seemed to be a Skypeian in aviator clothes, with a pair of goggles on his head and a lance in his hand.
"What? You two are the only sacrifice I get to kill?" the rider asked, to their great fear. Almost instantly, Chopper went and blew the whistle.
*WITH GUTHRIE'S GROUP*
The adventuring group took a break from all the walking and climbing somewhere in the forest. All of a sudden, they heard a sound.
"What was that?" Nami asked.
"Dunno. But stay there," Zoro answered, prepared to take out one of his swords.
Robin and Guthrie were also on alert, cautiously looking around the area.
A crocodile suddenly popped out from a cloud river above Nami, prepared the gobble up the girl. It would've succeeded too, had Robin not used her ability to clamp the mouth shut and Zoro and Guthrie hit it away, with the three sword style swordsman complaining about how sick he was of the creatures trying to eat them.
"What an unlucky day," Robin simply stated.
"No kidding. You okay, Nami?" Guthrie asked.
"Y-Yeah... Thanks," the navigator answered.
Just then, Guthrie stopped as he felt something. "Hang on, you guys," he told them.
"Now what?" Nami asked exasperatedly. The male Keyblade wielder didn't answer, but felt the atmosphere had changed. What was it? He didn't have a clue what it was.
"You feeling okay, Guthrie?" Zoro asked.
"I'm fine. But... don't you guys feel that?"
"Feel what?" Guthrie didn't respond, feeling that the answer should be obvious.
"I don't feel anything," Robin pointed out, looking about.
"If this is a way to freak me out, you're doing a good job!" Nami barked at him. "Let's just move on, okay?"
Guthrie shook his head, and closed his eyes, focusing. Instinctively, he summoned his Keyblade and tried to comprehend what was causing the change in the atmosphere. If the other three didn't feel it, then it was possible it was due to his connection to the Keyblade. Or possibly it was something else related to it. He wasn't too sure.
"…Chosen wielder…" said a voice, and Guthrie's eyes opened, looking about. Was that a voice?
"Now what are you doing?" Nami asked.
"I heard someone," the Keyblade wielder answered, and his head turned to where the voice came from. "Over there." He walked closer and closer to the voice, with the trio following behind him.
'... Chosen wielder of the Keyblade...' the voice called out. '... I can feel your connection to our kind. Please, set me free...'
"Set you free?" Guthrie asked. "What are you talking about?" The other three had no clue who he was talking to and questioned his sanity.
'... You and your comrades…you have been surrounded by others of my kind,' the voice stated. 'Please... Pass the challenge, and let me be part of your team...'
"A challenge?" Guthrie echoed. He then recalled something Xion told him before, about how she got her Dream Eaters. "Wait, is this a challenge for gaining a Dream Eater recipe?"
The other three were shocked at this. "Hold on. You saying there's a Dream Eater recipe here?" Zoro asked.
"As in one of the recipes that Xion has been searching for?" Nami asked. "Is one really here?"
"But Xion is not here," Robin pointed out. "How can we do the challenge without her?"
"Maybe it's due to the fact that I'm a Keyblade wielder," Guthrie guessed. "Or possibly it's because I have Chirithy, who's also a Dream Eater. Maybe that makes me qualified to take the challenge."
'... Your friends can join in on this challenge,' the voice stated. '... Please defeat all of the enemies around here, with two extra challenges; don't fall asleep and don't get shocked.'
Confused at this, Guthrie wondered why he would fall asleep in this fight or be shocked during a fight. Suddenly, the four pirates noticed the area about them burst forth with pink smoke, and a couple dozen sheep-like monsters, some plant-like monsters, and some giraffe-like monsters. They all had the Nightmare emblem on them.
"What the hell is this?!" Zoro demanded, drawing his blades.
"Apparently, we have to defeat them all in order to get the recipe," Guthrie told them, getting into a fighting stance. "But the voice also added that we shouldn't fall asleep or be shocked. I don't see how any of them can surprise us."
'No, just you.' the voice corrected Guthrie.
"Why just me?!"
"But why would it ask not to fall asleep or be surprised?" Robin asked, crossing her arms in preparation.
One of the sheep launched its horns at Zoro, who repelled them with his blades. A giraffe dashed towards him, coated in lightning. Zoro charged back at it and the sheep, unleashing two slashes with his blades, knocking them out into a puff of smoke. Guthrie also made a launch forward with his Keyblade, unleashing an Ice Dash that destroyed a plant and sheep Dream Eater.
Suddenly, a vine of thorns produced themselves in front of Zoro, binding his legs. "What-?! Hey! Get off!" he barked, trying to break free. Before he could free himself, a sheep came along, bouncing up to his face and emanated a pulse of energy. He suddenly felt drowsy as he fell backwards, and fell asleep, producing a snot bubble as he did so.
"Zoro, this is no time for a nap!" Nami scolded him.
"It must be that Dream Eater!" Robin noticed. "It must've used some sort of sleep spell." Another giraffe came and unleashed some lightning on the girls. Both managed to avoid it in time.
"Crap! That's what it meant!" Guthrie grumbled. "If I get hit by a Sleep or Thunder spell, then it's game over. We need to beat them all before that happens." He turned to Nami, seeing her quiver as she huddled herself close to Robin. "Nami, why aren't you fighting?! Show me you can fight like the rest of us!"
"Easier said than done!" Nami answered. "I've never fought Dream Eaters before and the ones I've seen are really tough!"
"So?! That's no excuse!" Guthrie answered, unleashing an Aeroga spell to blow several Dream Eaters away. "I get you are not as strong as the rest of us, but that's no excuse to not fight back when the going gets tough!" He saw she still wasn't budging and thought for a moment as he backed away from some Dream Eaters. After unleashing a Strike Raid on them, he came up with an added notion. "Let me put it this way. What's more scarier? These things, or Xion's rage in questioning you why we failed to get a recipe for her?"
The latter thought gave Nami a horrible daydream, of Xion pointing her Keyblade at all of them with her demonic face, demanding why they failed to get something important as that for her, before burning them up with a fire spell. That was enough of a motive for the navigator to give in.
"Alright, fine!" she barked. "But can you at least give me a minute to unleash an attack?!"
"You got it," Guthrie answered, relieved to hear her get over herself. "Robin, provide cover! I'll see if I can't get Zoro to wake up!"
"Of course," the archeologist answered, turning to four Dream Eaters approaching them. "Ocho Fluer:" She grabbed ahold of the Dream Eaters by the backs of their legs. "Flip!" She then sent them hammering backwards on their heads. At this time, Nami twirled her Clima Tact weapons, producing Cool and Heat Balls, which started to create a cloud in the sky above them.
Guthrie charged forward, flipping over a pair of thorn vines produced by the plant Dream Eaters and saw the culprits nearby where Zoro slept.
"Let's try this move I got from Jaya," he decided. "Sonic Blade!" He unleashed his new technique, going into a high speed dash at the Nightmares, slashing them from all sides with continuous dashes, ending with one final dash that destroyed them both. "Up and at 'em, sleepyhead." Guthrie conked Zoro's head with the tip of his Keyblade light enough to cause him to wake up without too much damage.
"What happened?" the First Mate asked.
"You got succumbed to the Sleep spell of the Nightmares," Guthrie answered, turning to see the storm cloud above Nami and Robin. "And now, it looks like Nami is finally gonna do something to help."
"The weather forecast today is cloudy," Nami stated. "High chances of thunder raining down. Better steer clear of them if you don't want the shock of your life! Thunder Ball!" She threw a ball of electricity up at the storm cloud, causing it to crackle. Nami and Robin looked to one another and raced out of the way as the Nightmares got in close. "Thunderbolt Tempo!" Before they could pursue, a storm of lightning rained down on the enemies, electrifying them out of existence.
"That's how you do it, Nami!" Guthrie cheered. "You totally have the skills to fight!" Nami looked to Guthrie, pumping her chest in pride as she gave him a thumbs up at being appreciated for her fighting prowess.
"Hey, I already took care of the rest of them!" Zoro pointed out, as the remaining Dream Eaters vanished.
"I guess we passed the challenge." Robin summed up, grinning at Guthrie, who nodded in agreement.
'... Thank you,' the voice spoke up again. '...You completed the challenge. I can already see I will get along well with all of you. Please, accept me.' A ball of light appeared in front of Guthrie, taking the form of a paper containing a recipe for a creature called a 'Thunderaffe'.
"Welcome to the group," Guthrie told the voice. There was no response from his thanks. 'Guess I can't hear its voice after receiving the recipe,' he assumed.
"Well, that's one thing we accomplished for Xion," Nami stated, as everyone regrouped.
"Heh! Proves that we can take those things on without her," Zoro chuckled.
"Funny, considering you were the one who was asleep through more than half of it," Robin pointed out, causing the swordsman to look disgruntled at that fact.
"Whatever. We got a recipe for her, so we'll give it to her when she, Luffy, Sanji and Ussop join us again," Guthrie decided, pocketing the recipe. "Let's keep moving. We still have no idea what this island has in store for us."
As three of the team started walking off, the usual whiner of the group questioned, "Why?! We just found a recipe, so let's head back before something else bad happens to us!" She noticed her outcries ignored, so she moaned as she followed after them.
*BACK TO THE RESCUE GROUP*
They were having a harder time than ever with Satori. The guy kept predicting their attacks, using his palm attacks on them, and even kicking his surprise balls at the group. Usopp was the first to go after Sanji.
"Usopp!" Luffy cried out.
"Luffy! Look out!" Xion shouted, moving away from her spot, as the priest kicked more balls their way.
The rubberman looked back and saw them coming, but took the chance and hoped they were duds, only for them to all explode at his face.
"I told you to look out!" the vice exclaimed in disbelief.
"And then there was one," came Satori's voice. Xion looked back up and saw him simply sitting on one of the balls. "Hoh hoh hoo! Now then, what will you do?"