The Ship From The Sky, Dreams, and Jaya
{No POV}
A little while after getting far enough from Alabasta and the Marines, Nami noticed where the log pose was now pointing to.
Of course right after they noticed it, a girl fell down from the sky and started hurdling towards their ship which prompted Luffy to save her and the ship. With that out of the way Chopper examined the girl with the help of Mia who was teaching Chopper everything she had discovered and gathered about medicine.
When Mia came out and reported the girl would be just fine and would wake up soon enough they all gathered for lunch on the deck.
"So Mia have you talked with Ace and Comet after everything went down in Alabasta?" Nami asked.
"So you and Ace-san have seen each other recently?" Robin questioned.
Mia smiled brightly.
"I haven't. But I know wherever he is, he will be just fine... I'll see him again soon enough." Mia said warmly.
Everyone smiled.
"I did see him when we were in Alabasta and we got married... We even adopted our adorable pups Midnight and Midnight's twin brother Comet.. We had a wonderful time together just like we used too years ago." Mia said.
Then Aisa came out everyone noticing her wings.
"Hey Miss, are you pregnant?" Asked Aisa to Mia.
Mia was shocked and blushed a bit.
"Not that I'm aware but I'll be sure to find out if I am later on. When its been two weeks since I slept with my husband. But it's rude to speak so disrespectfully to your elders child! First sit and eat and then we can all talk all you wish. I have saved you a plate." Mia said scolding the child but still being kind and warm.
Aisa blushed and apologized before politely joining the picnic grabbing the plate that Mia offered her.
Once they were all done they turned Aisa and smiled as Mia crouched in front of her.
"Child, can I hug you?" Mia asked.
"Y-yes..." Aisa said bashfully but feeling like she could truly trust the woman in front of her with her existence.
"It's nice to meet you... My name is Portgas D. Mia, i'm a vice captain of this crew and these are my nakama..." Mia began turning the girl around as she paused and began pointing out her nakama to the girl.
"The guy with the straw hat and goofy grin is this Pirate Crew's Captain and my little brother in law, Monkey D. Luffy. Next to him is the crew's navigator... and his secret wife...Nami." Mia said pointing at Nami and Luffy respectively.
Aisa nodded and Mia continued.
"The green haired man with the three swords napping against that railing there is Roronoa Zoro, our crew's other vice captain and main swordsman. And the black haired woman near him, that obviously has a crush on him, reading a book is Nico Robin our new and only Archeologist... The reindeer near her studying medical books is our crew's Doctor, Tony Tony Chopper." Mia introduced speaking mischeviously at every hinted thing.
Aisa giggled a bit signaling Mia to continue.
"The blonde man that is inside cleaning all the plates is our crew's cook, Sanji... His last name will remain hidden for now per his own request but maybe someday you'll learn of it... if you stick around that is. The woman that is now cleaning on the deck is our crew's own Melee Fighter, Mace Rena. She's also our very proud Cleaner. Just don't you dare ever insult her or you'll find her disciplinary methods worse than mine or Robins'... She's very fiery. They are in a very loving and committed relationship. Bets are totally through the roof between Me. Nami and Robin as to when the question will be popped and who will pop it if you get what I mean..." Mia said.
Aisa nodded in understanding causing mia to point to the only remaining members that she hadn't introduced.
"The long nosed man with the slingshot working with tabasco and other things is our crew's one and only Sniper, Usopp. We don't know his last name." Said Mia pausing before turning to the white wolf that was now sniffing Aisa.
"And lastly this is my one of my oldest children, adopted by my husband and myself along with her twin brother, back on the Island we just left a while back. This is Portgas D. Midnight. Her brother Portgas D. Comet is with their father right now, Portgas D. Ace. I'm sure you'll meet them someday if you stick around. Welcome aboard!" Mia welcomed causing Aisa to receive a warm welcome from each and every one of the Straw Hats.
Aisa couldnt help her smile.
"So what's your name?" Asked Mia to her.
Aisa smiled.
"My name is Aisa! It's nice to meet all of you!" Aisa greeted back exactly.
"Excuse me... Mia-san?" Spoke up Nami.
Mia frowned seeing the worry on her friend's face.
"What's wrong?" Spoke Mia.
"The Log Pose... It's pointing straight up at the sky... what do you think we should do about it?" Asked Nami.
"It seems to me our next destination is a sky island... And a giant ship seems to be falling from the sky so we might want to move the ship a bit." Mia said getting up and quickly placing Aisa on her shoulders and Midnight on her back.
Then she got to work.
When they got the ship out of the way of a giant ship that suddenly fell from the sky they anchored their ship as Robin examined the skull that landed on their ship and Mia snuck off with Aisa.
"So... You're from the sky island we're supposed to go to next huh?" Asked Mia to Aisa signaling her with her hands that she wanted to brush and dress her.
Aisa nodded.
"Yes... But I ran away and fled down to your Blue Sea because there are some really bad people over there wanting to kill me just like they killed my parents because I can use something called Mantra since I was a baby." Said Aisa sadly.
"I really want to have a mom and dad...and I can feel that i'll find them here..." Aisa said.
Mia smiled as she finished dressing and brushing Aisa.
"Luffy. Nami... You hear that?" Asked Mia out loud.
Luffy and Nami then approached them and crouched down in front of Aisa hugging her to them.
"Wha... Why...How..." Stuttered Aisa.
"We'll adopt you Aisa... We'd love to be your mom and dad if you'll let us... and the rest of the crew can be your aunts, uncles and cousins!" Nami said gently and warmly.
Aisa teared up.
"Of course! And we'll take down those who tried to kill you once we get to the sky island. And once we're done, you can come back down here with us if that's what you want and you can be our daughter and our ship's scout." Luffy said seriously yet happily.
The girl cried and Mia silently excused herself out to go help the others after picking up several books that talked about sky islands and she found the story book about Noland The Liar.
'He claimed to have been to a city of gold and then it vanished? Isn't there a rumored Knock Up Stream in the GrandLine? That could very well be our ticket up to Sky Island... But that many Extols? It'd be too many extols unless we only send five people out on deck once we approach the entrance... It could work... But just barely and the rest of us would still be illegal entries. I can cover only five of us so that will have to do... Now to tell all of them...' Mia thought to herself as she picked up the three books that helped her find the way to the knock up stream and subsequently Sky Island.
As she went outside she found only Robin, Usopp, Rena, Aisa, Midnight, Chopper, and Nami.
"Guys? I need to have a meeting with all of you once those three are back on the ship... I have a way for us to get up to Sky Island." Mia said discretely.
Then things got crazy quickly and the Straw Hats soon found themselves on Jaya with the descendant of Noland and the two Monkey men.
After everything settled a bit, Mia finally spoke up.
"If I may, I have a feeling as to where this 'City of Gold' might have ended up at..." Mia brought up calling all attention to herself as she opened up the three books she carried to certain pages and placed them on the table.
"I have heard that in the GrandLine there is a stream known as the Knock Up Stream. Supposedly it shoots straight up into the sky... and it's not far from this Island... My suspicion is that the knock up stream might have shot up the part of this Island that beared the City of Gold up into the sky. Explaining the place that Aisa here knows as the Vearth." Mia began.
"You really think that the city of gold Noland described is up in the Sky?!" Mont Blanc Cricket exclaimed in curious shock.
Mia then pulled out two maps, one old and worn down and one very recent and placed them on the table beside the three books.
"This map here, is one I found in the library on the other side of this Island. It's an old map of this Island they were about to throw out because they think it's an incorrectly produced map. But if you compare it to this other more recent map you can see that it's not incorrect. It's just from a time before the other half of this Island was shot up into the sky by the knock up stream which if my suspicions are correct, and mind you they should be if the looks on your faces are anything to go by, is fairly close by in an area right under the missing half of the island depicted in the older map." Mia explained.
Robin seeing what Mia was getting at gasped and smiled victoriously at her.
"Yes... I see what you mean... But there is another bit of evidence we have all been neglecting since we got to this side of the Island." Robin brought up noticing it.
Mia smirked and Nami caught on as she compared the two.
"You're right! Right here!" Nami pointed out pointing out the spot in each map where the very building they are on is located.
"This is where this building is! Meaning half of it is down here and the other half is on the missing part of this Island! The one that is most likely up in the sky!" Nami said.
"Exactly! Which means the Knock Up Stream is our ticket to Sky Island and to the City of Gold as well. However there is something I read about that worries me a slight bit." Mia said expression turning serious.
"What is it?" Asked Masira, Luffy and the other Straw Hats.
Mia then picked up one of the books and read it.
"In this book it says that the road to the Sky Island labeled Skypiea is guarded by a Watcher. It is said the Watcher does not particularly stop you but she does ask for an entry fee in a currency called Extols. Which when translated to berries is a steep price. If not paid, it said that you are then punished by a being they call God. It says how, but it's in a strange language I can't decipher." Mia explained.
"God? That can't be real!" Zoro said boredly and disbelieving.
"That's what I thought too but this being is mentioned in other books. My guess is that the leader of the people that tried to kill Aisa is someone with Devil Fruit Powers that calls themself God and uses their powers to strike fear and terror into the hearts of the people of Skypiea and then uses it to get rid of people from down here that manage to make it up there with the use of those powers if they don't pay the entry fee. Most likely to keep them in line and from thinking that they can escape his rule."
"So a tyrant person with Devil Fruit Powers?" Asked Rena in thought.
"Yes..." Answered Mia.
"Well it's thankfully a language that I have studied before, but what this says is downright terrifying." Robin piped in.
"What does it say?" Asked Usopp.
"It says, 'All who don't pay are struck down by God's mighty lightning strike and sent back to their Blue Sea, or they are taken to the Upper Yard where they are then never heard from ever again.' Upper Yard being God's domain." Said Robin darkly.
"Upper Yard must be the missing part of Jaya." Said sanji.
"Seems to me we'll need to defeat this God guy in order to free Aisa and the Skypieans. But how many extols are made of one berri?" Nami asked.
"From what I can gather the entry fee is one million extols per person or in Berris it's one million berri per person. Thankfully I have about 5 million berris I can expend so that we don't deal with problems right away when we get there, but only five of us can be on deck for my plan to work when we get to the entry way, so that when we all enter Skypiea we can have the element of surprise and be able to take down this 'God' guy down without too much difficulty." Mia explained.
Luffy thought it over and nodded his agreement to her plan.
"Just how much money do you have stored away anyway?!" Asked Nami and Usopp in shock.
Mia looked at them blankly as she answered casually.
"Hmm... Last I checked about 10 million Berri. I'd give more than five million for the entry fees but I still need to have some money for books, clothes and any needs that may come up at any time during our journey through the grandline." She said blankly as she suddenly began to pull out her bag of money.
"Now that you mention it I should probably double check since I did steal some more money while we were in Whiskey Peak and in Alabasta from all of the Baroque Works agents I took down and from Crocodile." Mia said suddenly sitting down and being lost to the world as she began counting Berris.
Everyone gaped at her except for Luffy, Zoro and Nami who sighed in amusement and got to work trying to figure out how to prepare the ship to go up the stream without dying.
When they reached a decision Mia had finished.
"Correction! I can give 8 million Berris. That'll leave me with 4 million Berris for needs, emergencies, and books." Mia announced putting the last of her money away.
"That, and I got a couple nice jewelries I can sell for more if the need to arises in the future." Said Mia.
Everyone in the Straw Hats laughed and then with the help of Masira, Mont Blanc and Soujo they worked hard and prepared the Going Merry for the trip up the Knock Up Stream. Explaining the plan to Mia of course and putting their plans together.
After all repairs were finished they ran across the trouble of Bellamy having taken Mont Blanc's gold.
And Luffy left to retrieve it with Mia, time quickly running out as the time of the Knock Up Stream's appearance quickly approaching.
TBC