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The Merry burst out of the clouds at high speed and the large Shrimp that had carried the ship up the winding path let go of the Merry and then landed back on the winding patch before swimming back down to Havens gate.

The Merry landed with a splash on the cloud sea and the straw hats regained their balance after such a fast paced ride which Luffy wanted to do again. Before them lay an island unlike any they had seen before, with a surface weaved of thick white clouds, marble buildings sat upon different clouds and were all connected by stair cases, the closest place to land looked like a beach surrounded a few by palm trees and some foliage.

The Merry sailed up to the shoreline of the island all of them were in awe of the strange island.

"Is this…is this Skypiea?" Robin asked herself.

Never in all her life did she expect to see an island in the sky. When the Merry reached the beach Luffy was the first one to disembark, he jumped off the ship. Usopp followed fearing that Luffy would fall through the clouds like he nearly did and they did not know what affect this kind of sea had on fruit users.

Fortunately Luffy landed on solid ground and he and Usopp ran up on to the beach to play. They were followed by very eager Chopper and Connor. Sanji and Nami who changed into a beach wear before also joining in the fun. Zoro dropped the anchor and it landed on some slid clouds.

Robin was however confused as to why the straw hats were so carefree, they knew nothing of this place or what dangers await yet the straw hats still acted like children.

"You're not going?" Zoro asked, as he approached the archaeologist.

"No it's just…how can they be so carefree and happy? Aren't they worried about the dangers or whatever maybe on this island?" Robin asked.

"Not really, Luffy never thinks of that stuff. Normally it's Nami and Usopp who worry about that but I think they're too excited to care at this point,"

"I still don't understand how charging head first into the unknown can be fun," Robin said.

"You know Luffy would call that an adventure," Zoro smirked; he jumped off the ship and headed to join the others on the beach.

At that point halfway across the beach Luffy had climbed a tree and was trying to eat a large grey pumpkin shaped fruit. Usopp was building various sculptures with the clouds and Chopper was rolling down along the beach bouncing of different cloud

Connor was looking at the plant life, curios as to how plants could grow on an island made out of clouds, Sanji picked some flowers for the girls and Nami found a few chairs made out of clouds to sit on.

Robin and Zoro came to join in whit the others and Sanji put a dark red sky flower in her hair before running off to give one to Nami. Zoro quickly found a place to nap and saw a fluffy ball on the beach.

"Hey a pillow," Zoro smiled.

He lay down on it and as soon as he did the pillow squeaked loudly and ran out form underneath him. Zoro shed hit the ground but because it was soft could it did not hurt.

"What the hell?" Zoro asked in surprise, he turned to see a small white fox squeaking angrily at him.

The fox was solid white with squinted eyes and average sized ears. Its mouth resembled a snout and the tail was long compared to the body; it was also lighter at the end.

Zoro stood up and picked the small creature up, it waved its legs angrily clearly not liking how the swordsman was treating it.

"What the hell is this thing?" Zoro asked.

Robin came over and examined the creature.

"It looks like a fox," Robin observed.

Zoro stared at the sky fox and poked it a few times in the belly, this only made the fox angrier, and the next time Zoro poked it the fox grabbed his finger in its snout and bit Zoro. It has a surprisingly strong bite as Zoro waved his hand really fast trying to shake the creature off him.

"Get it off, get it off," Zoro panicked, but the fox was stuck.

Suddenly a sound of a harp was herd; the straw hats stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction of the sound. Not far from where they were was a woman standing on a pile of clouds; she was playing a harp.

The woman was beautiful; she had blonde hair braided into two pig-tails and two antennae sticking out at the top of her head. She wore a pink dress with black, flower shaped textures that goes to her thighs red and pink striped sandals. But what made her stand out was her white wings that came out of her back giving her the classic depiction of an angel.

Sanji's eyes instantly turned to hearts at the sight of her.

"An angel…a real live angel…I must be in heaven," Sanji swooned.

"Unless that's Lucifer, because than your in hell," Robin commented.

The woman noticed the pirates and she stopped playing, she walked over to them much ti Sanjis delight, however she passed the cook and stopped in front of Zoro.

"Excuse me, but you have my pet," she said sweetly.

"Umm….sorry," Zoro said and held out his hand, the fox was still attached.

The woman giggled and looked at the fox.

"Su, you know you're not supposed to bite random people," the woman said.

The fox instantly let go of Zoro and dropped to the ground, it walked up to the woman and sat in front of here trying to look innocent. The woman than looked back at Zoro.

"I'm sorry about that," she apologised.

"Oh no it's not your fault, I bet moss head here did something stupid to agitate it," Sanji said quickly.

"Oi watch it," Zoro warned.

The woman giggled.

"That does not surprise me, Su can be temperamental at times, but she's normally fairly docile," the woman claimed.

"My Name is Conis," Conis introduced "did you all come from the blue sea?"

"Yep, we came to visit sky island," Luffy said.

"Well I hope you like it here," Conis smiled, she then noticed the fruit Luffy was holding.

"Are you trying to drink that?" she asked.

"Drink?" Luffy asked.

"Yes this particular fruit is too hard to eat, so you cut a small hole in the bottom and drink it," Conis explained.

She took the fruit form Luffy and showed them, she put a straw in the newly cut hole and gave it back to Luffy. Luffy tried some of the juice and he liked it, he handed it around for the others to try some.

Nami approached her.

"Excuse me but would you mind showing us some more things? Everything here is a mystery to us," Nami said.

"Not at all, ask me anything you like," Conis answered.

Nami was about to ask some questions when Connor beat her too it.

"What's that out there?" Connor asked and pointed out to sea.

Conis looked and saw a figure was heading there way, he was on something that was gliding over the clouds at top speed.

"Oh that would be my father, he went out fishing earlier today," Conis said.

"What's that he's on?" Nami asked.

"Oh that's a Waver, there used to get around the Island quickly," Conis answered.

The crew watched as Coins's father arrived on an odd half-boat half-bike-like device. As he approached the beach he lost control and crashed straight into a tree.

"Oh dear…it happened again," the man said as he dusted himself off.

Coinis father was a man of average height. He was almost bald but has dark brown hair antennas and bushy beard covering his mouth. He wore brown and yellow robes with a light yellow collar at the top covering his neck.

"Again?" Usopp asked.

"Yes, Wavers are hard to drive and even harder to stop," the man said.

He then looked at Conis.

"Are these friends of yours Conis?" he asked.

"We just met, they came from the blue sea," Conis answered.

"Oh really? Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Pagaya," Pagaya introduced.

"Father did you catch anything good today?" Coins asked.

"Oh yes I got quite the haul, perhaps your new friends would like to join us for lunch," Pagaya offered.

"We'd love too," Luffy said happily.

"Food prepared in the sky…do you mind if I help you prepare lunch?" Sanji asked.

"Not at all," Pagaya answered.

Nami however was ignoring the conversation and had moved closer to get a better look at the Waver, it was just like the one Nolan described in his journal and Luffy had brought something similar up from the ocean.

"Before we go, how does this work? There are no sails to catch wind and no oars for rowing," Nami asked.

"Oh you use the pedals to make it go the more pressure you apply, the faster the Waver goes," Pagaya explained.

Luffy put down his drink and hopped on the Waver, he pressed he applied a small amount of pressure to the pedal and the Waver took off at an incredible speed. Unfortunately Luffy was quickly thrown off and landed in the cloud sea.

"Hey do you think the sea here has the same effect on fruit users as the one we're used to?" Usopp asked.

"Don't know, let's find out," Zoro said.

The crew watched Luffy struggle and quickly sink beneath the surface.

"I'll take that as a yes," Sanji said.

Zoro sighed and went into retrieve the rubber captain, Chopper also wanted to help but he had to be rescued by Sanji. The cook also retrieved the Waver.

Conis and Pagaya led the crew up to their house for food, Nami politely declined as she wanted to have a go at to driving the Waver. As they walked up a large staircase Pagaya explained various details of Sky Island life to the Straw Hats. Along with the two types of clouds that made up the island, the sea clouds and the solid clouds which could be cut and shaped, to make things like the staircase beneath them and even their homes.

Once they got to their house, Sanji helped Pagaya in the kitchen while Conis entertained the guests in the living room by showing the straw hats odd looking shells called Dials. She explained Dials to the Straw Hats by showing off various types of which served a variety purposes.

Tone Dials recorded sound and played it back, Breath Dials stored air currents and then released them and supposedly the largest of this type of dial was used to power Wavers. Flame Dials could store heat inside them to be used for cooking, Vision Dials which could record everything the user saw and Light Dials stored and released light, these were used as lamps.

All these explanations continued to 'wow' the Straw Hats, Chopper and Luffy played with a few Dials while Connor and Usopp also tried a few and Usopp wondered if they could be incorporated into a weapon. Not long after Conis had finished explaining the Dials Luffy Usopp Chopper and Connor moved to the balcony watching Nami ride around on the Waver.

"Aww how come Nami has such good control of that thing?" Luffy pouted.

"I want a turn," Chopper complained.

They continued to watch the Waver and then minutes later Sanji and Pagaya set down several plates at the table.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, lunch is served; here we have Sky-Island Lobster with special sauce and a side of several varieties of Sky-Island fruit which I can't pronounce." Sanji announced formally.

After setting the dishes down the crew dug into the food and it was devoured, mostly by Luffy. Sanji walked out onto the balcony overlooking the sea, he briefly scanned the horizon but he could not see Nami.

"Hey guys, I can't see Nami anywhere." Sanji sounded concerned as he said this.

"She's out there riding on the Waver," Luffy answered.

"No she's not," Sanji said, he was looking over the horizon but could not see Nami.

"Don't worry about it anyway Sanji, she's probably just gone out a bit too far, Nami's a smart girl she can take care of herself." Usopp cut into the conversation.

"Father, do you think she strayed there… she could run into trouble." Conis said concerned.

"What are you talking about?" the rubber-man asked.

"There's an island in Skypiea, under no circumstances is anyone allowed to set foot on it. It's forbidden," Conis explained.

"Could you get there on a Waver?" Sanji asked.

"Yes, it is defiantly Within Waver range,"

"What's so bad about this place? Is it dangerous?" Connor asked.

"It's sacred ground called Upper Yard," Conis continued, she then paused, searching for the right words "It's the land, where God lives."

"God?" the straw hats asked together.

With Nami

Nami was still wondering out on the Waver, she had quickly mastered the art of driving the craft, and was thoroughly enjoying herself, but when she saw the crests of trees on the horizon, she quickly moved to investigate.

"What in the world?" Nami gasped as she stood in awe of what was in front of her. Nami had to pinch herself, as she gazed upon the most gigantic trees she had ever seen.

Standing over 100 feet tall before her and unlike the palm trees she had seen on the beach, these trees were planted on solid ground, actual soil, and not solid cloud. Nami did not know it but she before her was the holy and forbidden land: Upper Yard.

"Those trees, how'd they get so big? And how did so much rock and soil get up here?" Nami wondered.

Nami noticed that the edge of the Island had roots hanging over the side, she suspected that you had to climb them to get on the Island. Nami continued to stare at the Island taking in the sight and wondering how it got up here and what secrets it must hold.

She decided to get a better look at the Island and maneuvererd the Waver along it's coastline was now as followed it she heard voices coming from further up the shoreline and ventured closer towards them; the voices were being emitted from a Tone Dial.

Nami looked at the strange shell in wonder, she didn't know the specifics of what it did but she guessed that this was some form of sound recorder. The recordings however were extremely morbid, with the last recording sounded very much like the death of the user at the hands of what he referred to as God.

'God? As in the God?' Nami thought.

She was interrupted from her thoughts by the sounds of someone running towards her. Suddenly a man came running out of the forest; he spied Nami on her Waver.

"Help, please you have to help me…" the man cried.

"Umm…I don't…" Nami started.

She suddenly looked up at the sky and her eyes widened; she floored the Waver and hid behind a tree root that was hanging off the Island. A second later the man was engulfed in a massive blue pillar of lightning.

Nami stopped under a nearby large tree root to catch her breath; she could not believe what just happened. The sky was clear and lighting still came down from nowhere without any warning. Did this mean that there was a God living in the sky?

Suddenly she heard voices from above her.

"Looks like the target has been dealt with," one voice said.

"Yep good thing too, we can't have criminals running around," another agreed.

"Speaking of criminals, did you hear about those people who entered illegally?" a third voice spoke.

"Yeah, a message has already been sent to the White Berets, they'll deal with them," a fourth voice claimed.

"Do you think they'll pay the fine or do something idiotic and drastic?" the second voice asked.

"They'll probably pay the fine, if they don't they might end up like this guy," the first voice answered.

"Come on who in their right mind would do something so stupid and idiotic not to mention down right suicidal to earn the anger of Lord Enel?" the third one joked.

"Yeah you'd have to be a complete and utter moron to do that," the fourth agreed "so how many people entered illegally?"

"I think it was 8," the first answered.

Nami's eyes went wide, it did not take a genius to realise that these men were talking about the straw hats.

"Oh well it's not like we can do anything about it now, let's head back and report that the target was eliminated," the second one said.

The voices began to fade as they headed back into the Island.

Nami waited for the voices to completely fade before she fled, she headed back towards Skypiea to return and warn the crew of the potential danger.

Eventually she turned the Waver and headed back the way she came.

"Not good…not good…I have to tell the others about this. We need to leave now," Nami panicked.