This chapter is pretty short because frankly it doesn't have too much of an impact story wise as the next arc which I'll probably split between two to three chapters. This particular chapter here will deal heavily with Skypiea and then lightly touch the G-8 Arc before moving on to the start of Water Seven. And when I say lightly i mean as light as just a slight poke and its done.
Frankly that particular arc never made much sense but in this story it will be important storyline wise.
-Brightspark4
Skypiea and Upper Yard! Escape The Marine Base G-8!
Shipwright Needed!
What's happening to Ace and Comet?!
{No POV}
As they sailed away from Jaya and Mont Blanc, Mia and Midnight went to the women's quarters to check the Vivre Card given to them by Ace.
As Mia pulled it out she immediately became worried as she saw it had become beige and burned at the tips.
"Please be okay Ace... Comet... Stay safe... Please..." Mia muttered causing Midnight to nod worriedly.
After that they left and rejoined the others just in time for Mia to use the ocean water of the stream to launch the ship the rest of the way up.
When they reached the White Sea, Mia sighed in relief and suddenly fainted immediately being caught before she could fall to the floor thanks to Robin's devil fruit powers.
Chopper then took her to the infirmary and began to examine her, she was alright but she was pregnant.
When she woke up, he explained to her and she smiled and explained to him she wished to keep it quiet until things settled down enough to bring it up to the rest of the crew.
"Alright... But be sure to tell them within the next three weeks though... You're about a week along and by the looks of it you'll start to show by then." Said Chopper.
Mia nodded before standing up.
"From now on no drinking until you give birth, and you need to be sure to get proper nutrients into your body. You also need to refrain from using your powers too much during these next nine months. Also be careful to not take any heavy damage to your body during the next nine months. You might have to stop fighting all together be stuck in bed if you do. So be extremely careful. I also want to give you regular check up every week or so in order to make sure everything is going well with the pregnancy." Chopper said.
"I'll give Sanji a decent excuse to make you food for a proper pregnancy diet. But you really need to tell at least Luffy as soon as possible." Chopper finished.
Mia nodded awkwardly and pulled out the vivre card she kept on her persons at all times to see it slightly more burned at one corner.
'Ace! Comet! Please be safe...Our future addition to our family needs us to both stay alive... Please, please be safe...' Thought concernedly at the sight of the vivre card before putting it away and rubbing her belly gently.
"You are loved deeply my child..." Mia muttered with a soft smile.
Then she headed outside and rejoined the others in time to see they were fast approaching the entry way.
"Nami, Mia, Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, Rena, Chopper! On deck with me! All others go below deck into the kitchen and stay there! Mia! The money! Quickly!" Luffy ordered quietly.
Everyone nodded and did as told Mia quickly emptying from her bag into a separate bag the money that would be needed. Once she finished they finally found themselves at the entryway to Skypiea and after Amazon introduced herself and said they would need to pay 8 million Berris, Mia threw over the money and Amazon got them set up to enter legally. Then they were taken by the crab to the White-White Sea.
After reaching land and anchoring the ship, the others were allowed to come out.
"We don't have too much time before this 'God' guy and his chronies notice our presences so we should come up with a strategy." Mia said after everyone had their fun and had met Conis and her father.
Aisa was glad to discover the people of Skypiea were not bad at all.
"What do you have in mind Mia-chan?" Asked Robin.
"Well, nothing too concrete since I only have a vague map Nami and I made with the help of my books and that of Noland The Liar as to Upper Yard's lay out. But after some conversation with Aisa earlier, I managed to get an Idea as to what our enemies are capable of." Mia said opening up the vague map and stabbing five different parts of it.
"In upper yard there are four different areas in which you will encounter one of the lightning freak's chronies and their individual ordeal. Over here in this area, is the Ordeal Of Balls. Some fat guy that uses Mantra, the same ability Aisa here can use. Mantra appearantly is something mentioned in books over in the Blue Sea as Haki. There are three kinds Observational, Armament, and Conquerors. By the sounds of it, this guy in particular has a type of Armament Haki. The next ordeal is known as the Ordeal of Iron. Not much is known about the guy there except he can use fire on his weapon. And he is a dangerous enemy. His type of haki is probably Armament. But I can't be certain." Mia said darkly.
Chopper handed her some prenatal vitamins he made for her and some water.
"Thank you, Chopper." Mia said taking the vitamins before continuing.
"The third are over here is the Ordeal Of String. I have no indication on any attributes of this enemy either other than he too uses Armament Haki and some kind of string powers. Also a difficult enemy. The fourth and final ordeal area is the Ordeal of Swamp. Deadly place so I suggest no devil fruit users go there considering the word SWAMP is in the name. Water will be there and that is deadly to us all even myself." Mia explained taking the hot cocoa graciously.
"Thank you Conis-san..." Mia said kindly and warmly.
Then she moved on by pointing momentarily at the final pin pointed location on the map.
"This is just beyond where the four ordeals meet. The City Of Gold Noland spoke about is there and just beyond it is where this 'God' person is. He has lightning powers and Observational and most likely Armament Haki as well. Conqueror's Haki is too rare for any one of them to possess." Mia explained.
"Have a strategy in mind?" Sanji asked.
Mia smirked.
"Of course." She answered.
"We'll first need to let things happen, this God guy will soon have a giant crab come here to take our ship and us all to Upper Yard. We need to all be on the ship. Then once we are there we'll be finding ourselves on some kind of Sacrificial Altar. From there, Robin, Zoro, and Nami can go onto the land this way and find a Poneglyph as well as maybe one or two of the enemies. You can all handle them. So long as you don't run into this 'God' guy you will be fine. Rena, Sanji, Usopp, and Midnight can head straight to the Ordeal of Balls. You can take down the enemy there if you apply yourselves. Chopper and I will stay on the ship with the whistle Gan Fall gave to us just in case of emergency and handle the final enemy that will appear there. He wont be an Issue for us. And that way the ship will be protected. If he does become an issue we'll blow the whistle and call Gan Fall to our aid. I'd go aid the rest of you... If I could risk it." Mia said finishing her statement with a sigh having seen Chopper's look of concern and silent cry to tell her nakama the news.
"Why can't you risk it?" Questioned Usopp curious.
Mia sighed once more with an awkward smile.
"Well you see... I'm... pregnant..." Mia said awkwardly as she rubbed her belly gently.
"Congratulations Mia-chan..." Said Robin.
"P-PREGNANT?!" The rest exclaimed in shock including Pagaya and Conis.
Mia smiled awkwardly and nodded.
"Yeah... I'm about a week along now..." Said Mia.
"Wow... Um... Congratulations... But are you sure you can fight at all?" Nami said calmly.
Mia smiled reassuringly.
"I can fight, I just can't use my powers too much and I need to be careful not to push myself too hard and not get hurt badly enough that it could hurt the child. Neither of which i'll allow to happen. Besides i'll be sure to have Chopper or one of you at my side for protection at any given time during my pregnancy." Mia answered calmly.
"Okay. I'll trust you to be safe. But from now until you have your baby you are allowed to kill your enemy if you need to. Just be sure you are both unharmed... Try to avoid killing if you can, but if you can't do that then kill without hesitation. Ace would never forgive me if anything ever happened to you and your unborn baby." Luffy said seriously.
Mia nodded just as serious before they all left to the ship immediately.
~After everyone went to do their thing~
As Chopper and Mia worked steadily on fixing up the Going Merry, the enemy came.
They began to fight and Chopper was badly beaten up prompting Mia to jump in.
"Chopper! Close your eyes and call over Gan Fall! I'll need help after this to take care of your injuries!" Mia said skillfully dodging the attacks her enemy threw at her.
Suddenly an attack hit the mast and made it start to fall causing Chopper to blow the whistle while righting the mast.
Then he closed his eyes.
Mia then dodged on final attack and clapped her hands together. Her hands turned black and glowed in blue as she began to pull them apart her enemy began to scream in pain before he exploded into chunks.
Mia sighed in relief afterwards and swiped her hand over the ship gently causing water to sweep across the deck of the ship and clean away the chunks of what used to be a human away completely. Then Gan Fall arrived and she turned to him.
"Please, Gan Fall-san... I need your help to move Chopper safely to the Infirmary so I can treat him... I can get him there but I need someone to lift the mast off of him, and that's something I can't do because I'm currently pregnant." Mia explained rushing to Chopper's side.
Gan Fall immediately got to work righting the mast and fixing it while Mia grabbed the now small Chopper and took him to the infirmary.
Immediately she patched him up before sitting down and taking it easy.
Gan Fall soon coming in.
"Will you both be alright?" Said Gan Fall.
"Yes...He should recover fully and no more enemies should come this way any time soon. However, I do hope you could go out there and bring me any friends of mine that are injured so I may treat them. I must take it easy right now and allow myself time to recover the energy I have expended. But if you cannot, then I can understand... After all, we are nothing but strangers to you.." Mia said softly.
Gan Fall thought it over before smiling carefully at the woman.
"For yours and your friends' great efforts here to dethrone this false god that rules over this Island, I shall go and bring you your injured comrades that are nearby and unable to fight. But miss you must stay here and recover. After I bring you the last of your injured friends I must take my leave of this place." Gan Fall said carefully.
Mia smiled and took off her necklace.
"You have my deepest gratitude. I implore you to take this with you as thanks. In this necklace lies some of my powers. Should a situation arise where one of my friends' enemies tries and gets in your way of bringing them here, just open the locket and an enormous wave of sea water will come forth and drown them unconscious. It is not much, but it's the best I can do in my condition, as I am too worried about my husband and pregnant on top of everything. I could never abort or give away my child so I am left powerless in this situation." Mia said with a small sad and concerned smile.
A tear escaped her eye and Gan Fall patted her head reassuringly and in grattitude before placing the necklace around his neck and rushing away.
When he was gone, Mia allowed herself to finally cry a bit.
"Ace... Everyone... Please be safe..." She said.
- With Ace -
A battered and bruised Ace awoke shakily from his sleep.
"...Mia...Luffy...Midnight..." Ace said.
Comet who was beside him soothingly and affectionately rubbed his snout against his adoptive father's abdomen.
"Ah... You are awake, Fire Fist..." Spoke up Jimbe.
Ace smiled at him.
"Yes... I was awoken by the feeling that my wife must be worried about me..." Ace explained.
"Well, I can imagine she would be considering you are locked up in Impel Down..." Said Jimbe.
"She probably doesn't know that I and our adoptive son Comet are here... She is busy journeying on the GrandLine with my brother to learn all about all the cultures of this world... She doesn't read the papers..." Ace said weakly.
"Then why would she be worried?" Jimbe said.
Ace smirked striking a chord of fear in Jimbe.
"Because my wife... She has my vivre card... She'll be able to know of my deteriorating health.. Besides, we have always been close enough to know when one of us is unwell, in danger, or otherwise... I worry... that once she learns of my fate... she'll join forces with my little brother and take on all of Marineford..." Said Ace darkly.
"I can see why that is worrying..." Jimbe said.
Ace then laughed, genuinely amused...
"You've got the wrong idea Jimbe... It's not those two I'm worried about... It's about what will happen when they go on a rampage..." Ace said grimly.
Jimbe was shocked.
'Just what are those two capable of?!' Thought Jimbe.
"What do you mean by that?" Jimbe asked.
Ace smiled fondly...
"Do you know what the wrath of the oceans is?" Asked Ace.
Jimbe nodded after remembering what it was.
"My wife... she is one with the oceans... when her wrath is incurred... so is that of the oceans..." Ace said quietly.
Jimbe now understood his concern slightly more.
"But what of your brother?" Jimbe asked quietly.
"He may not have an extremely special kind of power, but he carries in him the will of D rather strongly... My wife has told me of just mere glimpses of his capabilities but even that is a powerful force to deal with... My wife bears it since birth as well just like me. But I am not upset about this enough to use that kind of force." Ace answered quietly before yawning and falling asleep.
'The wrath of the oceans and the wrath of the will of D? That's insane...' Jimbe thought to himself in disbelief.
'Only time will tell what happens next...'
- With Mia -
After a while Gan Fall came back with every single one of her friends except for Luffy and Nami.
Aisa was currently stopping the people of Shandora from being murdered.
"Here are your friends and your necklace, miss." Said Gan Fall handing Mia her necklace.
Mia smiled and grabbed it graciously and got to work on patching up her friends after putting it on.
Once she was done she placed the Going Merry on the water.
'We really need a proper shipwright after we get back to the Blue Sea... These damages are incredibly dangerous. It looks like the Merry is barely holding herself together these days. The mast is pretty messed up as well, and Usopp, Rena and I are not proper shipwrights. We can only do so much... I'll have to talk with the Captain and the crew about it after we leave this place.. Also Robin... She's acting strange lately.. Ever since her and I discussed Enies Lobby and the World Government sometime back when we spoke of her past and her experience with a Buster Call... Let's hope nothing horrible happens too soon...' Mia thought to herself as she sat calmly near her injured friends while awaiting the return of her little brother and little sister in law.
When the two finally returned, Luffy and Nami held minor injuries just as Aisa who returned with them did so Mia quickly patched them up and together the four of them sailed the ship back to where they first met Conis and Pagaya.
After receiving an octopus balloon and saying their goodbyes they left Skypiea and went back to the Blue Sea.
When they landed on the water, they found themselves at the G-8 Marine Base and immediately followed Mia's instructions to be able to escape the base without much if any difficulty.
Aisa, Chopper, and Mia heading over to the medical ward.
"Say... Are you pregnant Miss Pirate?" Asked the female doctor.
Mia smiled.
"Yes! I am!" Mia confirmed.
Her belly was surprisingly starting to develop a bump.
"I'll need to do an ultrasound soon! Next Island we stop by I'll have to buy the equipment." Said Chopper pensively.
"Are you that far along?" Asked the woman.
"No.. I'm barely past a week.. Which is why its slightly concerning that our ship doctor is concerned." Mia answered.
"I'm not surprised though... You'll be having triplets!" Aisa said shocking them.
"How do you figure?" Asked Mia awkwardly.
"Do you remember when I asked if you were pregnant when we first met?" Asked Aisa.
"Yes... But.." Mia said.
"I asked because when you touched my shoulder my Mantra ability showed me an image of you and a black haired man with a cowboy hat. You were carrying one baby girl with black hair and blue eyes while he carried two boys with blonde hair and brown eyes. Dad and Mom were near you two off to the side holding two babies with black hair and brown eyes both girls, and Zoro on your other side holding a baby boy with green hair and blue eyes Robin standing next to him hugging them both." Aisa said happily.
Chopper and the woman proceeded to fall over in shock as Mia chuckled and patted her hair.
"Looks like our nakama will only be getting bigger and bigger soon." Mia said amused.
Aisa nodded smiling brightly.
Then everything went crazy as Mia had expected and the straw hats fled the Marine Base successfully.
As they headed towards the next Island they announced the news that Mia was appearantly going to have triplets and Nami and Luffy came forth with their relationship revealing that they were expecting a child. Only for Aisa to reveal it was the twin girls she saw in her vision caused by her Mantra. Everyone celebrated for a bit before they all realized.
"We're going to need a proper shipwright and possibly a new ship." Mia finally voiced.
They all sighed and agreed except of course Usopp who refused to accept to get rid of the Merry.
"We won't be getting rid of the Going Merry, Usopp. Calm down... We'll probably get a ship big enough to carry the Merry within it." Said Mia calmly.
And then they met Grandma Kuroko and the little girl with twin braids and a strange rabbit that soon told them of Water Seven and pointed them towards the City.
So they sailed off to the floating city of water...
...Water Seven...
TBC