The Straw Hats decided to pay Montblanc Cricket a visit on the other side of the Island, but as they were heading there they were stopped by another ship.

"Didn't take long for us to come across something weird." Luffy said

"Hey guys doesn't that guy look like that Masira guy?" Ussop said

All of them looked at it closely and they noticed the crew of the ship, Cray looked at the Captain and noticed that he strongly resembled that person that He, Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji kicked off our ship.

"They don't really look like the same crew we met before." Cray said

"Well Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is another story." Sanji said

"HEY HEY YOU GUYS quit mumbling over there, I got all worked up wondering who you guys were." The Captain of the ship said

"Luffy then looked at the man closely.

"Thats a reckless Face you got. what species are you?" Luffy said

"I'm Human your Moron!" the captain Yellled

"You punks! don't you know of Shoujou He's the big boss of the Shojo Pirates and the king of the undersea search! Don;t make him angry!" The crew yelled

"Now Now...Did you know that Crocodile one of the Warlords of the Sea was Defeated? When you consider my Abilites that post may come to me So I've been getting all worked up waiting to be contacted." shoujou said to the Straw Hats

"I see so you want to become one of the Warlords of the Sea?" Luffy said

"Well in any case the great part about me is that I haven't cut my hait in all my 25 years in life now aren;y you surprised?" Shouju said

" He's Only 25 years old?" Cray said to himself

"Sounds stupid." Luffy said to shoujou

"Hey Watch Your mouth!" Shoujus crew yelled.

"Now Now... what you say really get me worked up...Listen. You will come out of the tunnel that is my anger into a sea of blood." Shoujou said

"yeah whatever, But theirs a place we wanna go, so could you move out of the way?" Luffy said

"You idiot this is my Turf! if you wanna pass your going to have to pay the Toll!" shoujou said

"Geez this guy is more annoying then that Masira guy." Cray said

"hmm, Masira what about Masira?" Shouju said

"Oh we kicked him off our boat but." Luffy said

Kicked? Kicked!? How dare you do that to my Brother! You'll all pay for that!" shoujou yelled

"hey hold on a second we kicked him but he's still alive." Luffy said

"Luffy! shut up!" Cray yelled

Shouju then took out a Microphone and was ready to attack

"Sound Wave!" Shouju yelled into the microphone

"Suddenly a Piercing scream was starting to tear up the Going Merry.

"Oh no the Going Merry is coming Apart!" Ussop yelled

we need to get out of that things Range!" Nami yelled

Everyone scattering around, trying to maneuver the ship away from the Sound wave and with some luck they did before there ship came apart.

...

Seriusly...Seriously..Seriously...he wrecked the ship even more." Ussop said hammering a nail

Everyone was trying to repair the Damage that Shouju has done to the ship.

"This ship is really starting to fall apart maybe its about time to replace it." Zoro said

"Don't you dare say inconsiderate things like that!" Ussop yelled

"He has a point Ussop, sooner or Later were going to have to.." Cray said

"You shut up to! Did you two forget how we got this ship!?" Ussop yelled

"We know Ussop, complaining won't get us anywhere, The Going Merry is an important part of the team, So lets work hard and repair the ship." Luffy said hammering a nail.

""Luffy...thank you." Ussop said about to Cry.

"Luffy then hammered down to hard accidently breaking a part of the ship.

"Opps." Luffy said

"YOU IDIOT ARE YOU REPAIRING OR WRECKING IT!?" Ussop yelled

"Calm down Ussop it was just an accident." Cray said

"CRACK"

"Whoops, it broke again." Luffy said

"LUFFY!" Ussop yelled

Nami was taking a look at the map,

"Okay we should be almost there." Nami said looking at the map.

as they got closer to there destination they noticed a huge building on the land, that was like a big castle

"Woah look at that!?" Luffy yelled bug eyed.

"AMAZING!" Ussop yelled

"hmmm. Cray said to himself looking at the front

"Is something the matter Cray?" Chopper said

"Its a Veneer." Cray said looking at it

"a what?" Chopper said

Luffy then jumped onto land to get a closer look at the building but as he did, he noticed that it wasn't Quite impressive. as everyone went on land to see it as well

"What the...Its just a board!?" Luffy yelled

"Just as I thought, Its just a Veneer with some Decorative art on it, although its quite Impressive. " Cray said

"He seems like a very cheap guy." Sanji said

"What kind of Dreams did he talk about that would get him driven out?" Nami said

" We don't know the full details, but as we were walking back towards the ship we asked a few people about who this Montblanc Cricket guy is." Cray said

"They told us he went on and on about huge amounts of gold resting in Jaya." Robin said

"Gold!? like a Pirates treasure or something!? Nami said

"Well, I don't know." Robin said

GOLD!?" Nami said with sparkling eyes.

Everyone took a closer look at the house, Luffy took it upon himself to go inside the building.

"Hello is anyone here!?" Luffy yelled

"Don't just Walk into a strangers house!?" Ussop yelled

As Nami was Walking around the open area and as she was she noticed a book on top of a stump table.

"Huh? a picture book?" Nami said grabbing it

"It looks old." Cray said

"It's titled "Noland the Liar"." Nami said

"Wow thats a cool title nice idea for a book." Ussop said

"Of course you would think that Ussop." Cray said

"Noland the Liar?" Sanji said

"Do you know it Sanji? It says that it was published in the North Blue?" Nami said

"Yeah I was born in the North Blue, I grew up there, this is a famous story in the North, its a fairy tale supoosedly based on a real life man named Noland a long time ago." Sanji said

Nami then went on to read the story,

it was about man named Montblanc Noland nearly 400 years ago who talked about his incredible adventures, and one day he talked to the king of his country about him finding a mountain of gold on an island in the great sea, the king along with 2000 of his men accompanied him to see if what he said was true. however once they got there there was nothing but jungle, and in the end he was sentenced to death for the crime of lying and Nolands last words were. "Thats Right" the Mountain of Gold sank in the sea!" the king and the others were dumbfounded and no one believed Noland any Longer.

"Alas the liar died before he could prove himself to the people...and all he ever really wanted to do was live the life of an adventurer." Nami said sadly closing the book and looking at Ussop

"That part wasn't in the book! don't try to tack on your own sentimental nonsense!"" Ussop yelled

Luffy was busy staring down at the water, and as he was something started to bubble up.

"hmm" Luffy said

And what came out of the water was an chestnut shaped thing.

"whats this?" Luffy said reaching to grab it.

"Then suddenly he felt himself being pulled in.

"WHOAH!" Luffy yelled falling into the water.

"Oh no luffy fell into the Water!" Cray yelled

Suddenly someone jumped out of the water. it was middle aged man with blond hair. that looked like he had a large chestnut on his head

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE!? YOU GOT SOME NERVE RELAXING IN SOMEONES WITH OUT THERE PERMISSION! YOU ALL BETTER LEAVE OR ELSE!" the man yelled

"Quick Ussop Get Luffy out of the water!" Sanji said running towards the man

"Your all hear to steal my gold are You!?" The man said ready to kick Sanji quickly dodged and tried to counter only for him to pull out a gun and shot at Sanji.

"SANJI!" Chopper yellled

"Oh no!" Cray yelled

"I'm fine this guys a lousy shot!" Sanji said dodging the bullet just in time

The man then started to shoot continuously at him, Sanji was trying his best to dodge them.

"All right I had enough!" Cray yelled running towards the man

" iro Iro no.." Cray said getting ready.

Suddenly the man stopped and dropped his gun he then clenched his stomach in pain and fell into the ground. Ussop just got done fishing Luffy out of the water.

"What the hell?" Cray said

"He seems to be in alot of pain." Sanji said

The man just layed there with a pain expression on his face.

...

Eveeryone decided to help the man into his house they layed him on the bed as Chopper checked up on him

So Whats wrong with him chopper?" Cray said

"Its Cassion disease." Chopper said

What the hell is that?" Zoro said

"Its an illness that mostly effects divers though its called a disease its not a chronic condition. its caused by decompression when surfacing from the seabed." Chopper said

"You think you can help him?" Luffy said

I'm not sure my guess he kept diving everyday without allowing his body recover, thats why he passed out during the fighting." chopper said

"Is it deadly?" cray said

"in some cases it can be, This man is lucky to be alive." chopper said

"Cray was looking around the house and as he did he noticed a picture on the wall seeing the man along with two others Masiri and Shoujou

"Wait a minute aren't those two the.." Cray said

"HEY CRICKET ARE YOU ALL RIGHT!?"

All of them looked and saw Masiri and Shoujou burst through the door.

"AAAAAHHHHHH THEY'VE COME TO KILL US!" Ussop yelled running back in forth alogn with Chopper

"Aw man not these guys again." Cray said

"What in the world are you people doing here?" Shoujou said

"And what are you doing to our friend?!" Masira said

"Were tryign to help him, either you give us a hand or find someone else to bother." Luffy said

"Don't antagonize them Luffy you know what there capable of those two are savages" Ussop yelled

Then suddenly both of them started to cry.

"Thank you guys!" Masira and Shoujou said tearfully.

...

a few minutes Later Luffy was Talking and Laughing with Masari and Shoujou.

"Well those three are certainly getting along very well." Ussop said sitting down.

"It seems they have a lot in common." Zoro said

"You think he would at least hold some resentment." Cray said going through this Notebook.

"HEY GUYS HE'S WAKING UP!" Chopper yelled running out of the house.

The Straw hats Quickly went inside and saw Cricket sitting up smoking a ciggerate.

"Hey chestnut head i got a Question for ya.

"Cricket then blew it some smoke.

"I'm sorry that i attacked you earlier I thought you were nothing more then another group of pirates trying to steal my gold, what is that you want?" Cricket said

"Were searching for sky island and we were told you might know how to get us there." Luffy said

Are you serious?...hehehehe..hahahahahahaha don't tell me you really believe a place like that exists!?" Cricket laughed

Nami then started to walk towars him with anger in her eyes, Ussop tried to hold her back

"YOU MEAN TO TELL US THERES NO SKY ISLAND AT ALL Are you sure!?" Luffy yelled

"I don;t know...you see nobody knows if the sky island really exists or not i know of only one man that claims to have seen the island himself but he's considered a liar theres an old fairy tale that people from the north blue knows well its called Noland the Liar." Cricket said

"Wait a minute? Montblanc Noland? Montblanc Cricket? you two wouldn't happen to be related now would you?" Cray said

"Is he right? and is this island the one that is mentioned in the Tale!?" nami yelled

"hehe. yeah Nolands my Grandfathers Grandfathers Grandfather, he's a distant ancestor of mine, I'm his descendant. But were so far removed I doubt theirs a single drop of his blood in my veins. the Montblanc family was driven out of the North Blue country a long time ago and we managed to keep a low profile, ever since people still denounce the family name, But we don't blame Noland for it." Cricket said

"But why?" Chopper said

"Because Noland contrary to popular belief was a very honest person." Cricket said

"Thats not what the fairy tale says." Nami said

"as one of the lines in the story goes, "I can only assume that the city of gold has sunk into the sea." The line was accompanied by an idiotic face in the illustration, but Noland was no idiot, he knew what he saw and I believe he wasn't lying about it. Noland was sure the island he stumbled upon where he found the ruins of a city of gold was the island of Jaya, But when he returned back to the island with the king there was no Gold. Unsuccessful he insisted that the city submerged due to the shifts in the earths crust, but many dismissed it as a last ditch excuse of a doomed man. Noland was given a public execution and when he died so did his discoveries, and only the legend of the liar remain." Cricket said

" I get it so you came here to find the sunken city in order to prove Noland Right and clear the Montblanc Name!" Ussop said

DON'T BE RIDICULOUS!" Cricket said shooting a gun near Ussop making duck in Fear.

"I don't care if the city exists or not, the actions of my ancestors have nothing do with me and my life! You can't possibly begin to imagine what its like. as a kid for everyone to laugh at you and ridicule you because your a descendant of that idiot Noland! Thats what I had to deal with my whole life!" Cricket yelled

Everyone was silent.

"Sorry...As I was saying, over the past 400 years a great many of my family and freinds that sympathized with us have set sail to find the city of gold to prove Noland Right and restore the family name but they all ended up missing, I was ashamed to be part of such a pathetic family, So I left my home and became a pirate to leave Nolands shadow..and to become my own man, and overtime I came to assemble my own pirate crew and was seen as a leader not a laughing stock and I span the world looking for adventures. Then 10 Years Ago we stumbled upon this Island by pure chance. And Ironically out of all my family, it was I who found it, the one who despised the Montblanc name. I felt I was destined to be here so I decided to stay, at the cost of my crew leaving me to find it on my own. I don't care if I find the city or not or proving Noland right or wrong, I have no interest in rewriting history. all I am doing is following what I believe is my destiny, this is between me and Noland. I'm facing what I fear. and whatever the outcome, the act is all that matters." Cricket said

"wow what a sad story." Ussop said crying.

"What about those two Monkies? whats there story?" Luffy said

"there just fans of the fairy tale." Cricket said

"How did they find you?" Nami said

"I think it was around 5 or 6 years ago, they heard a rumor and set out to find me. those two truly believe that the city exist and they've been trying to help me find it. the sea that surrounds this island is very deep and in those dark cold depths your surrounded by a profund sense of solitude, When I first arrived here I spent my time searching the seabed alone. they entered my life without permission and assigned themselves as my crew without asking and they do nothing but fight all the time...but having these idiots around puts me at ease and truthfully I enjoy there company, you understand?" Cricket said

"I understand completely." Ussop tearfully said

"Are you just about finished, telling us your life story? "Luffy said

"You shut your mouth you ungrateful brat!" Ussop yelled

"Look all I really want to know about is sky island!" Luffy yelled

"hehe...your a pushy guy aren't ya? Like I told you earlier, the only person who knows about it is Noland. And nobody knows if he was telling the truth or not." Cricket said

"Is there any records of his trip to the island?" Luffy said

" Officialy no, but he does mention it in here." Cricket said grabbing a Log Book

"Wait that wouldn't be Nolands Log Book would it?" Nami said

"It is. Read from the bottom of this page." Cricket said opening the log book and giving it to Nami

"Amazing this Log Book is over 400 years old. June 21st 1120, Sea Empherias, we left Villa, A beautiful Town, following the Log Pose we should be heading east-northeast from the harbor, We got a rare item from a Bum boat that we came across during the day, its was a ski like one-person boat called a waver, it was a mysterious boat that can generate wind and move even on a day without wind, although it was very difficult to manage it" NO WAY! I would want something like that!" Nami said reading the log book with Luffy, Chopper, Ussop hovering around her

"KEEP READING!" Chopper, Luffy and Ussop yelled excitingly

"The Power for this seems to only be found on the sky island and I hear there are many strange things like that exist in the sky, speaking of the sky island one of my explorer friends showed me a live Skyfish. I was surprised how strange the fish looked. " Nami said

"Sky fish?" Sanji said

"to our ship it is unknown but as a sailor I would like to go to the sea in the sky someday, July 6th 1121: An explorer friend may have found a way for us to get there but he said it would take some time, how long he said it would be, he didn't verify but I'm hoping that its soon, Montblanc Noland" He said a sea in the sky!" Nami yelled

"So it really does exist!" Chopper yelled

"ALRIGHT!" The three of them yelled

As everyone was cheering with excitement Montblanc Cricket left the house to talk to Masari and Shoujou. to see if they can help The Straw hats get to Sky Island.