The water became choppy as the fallen ship crashed into the water, sending waves everywhere and rocking the Going Merry around in the water.
"HANG ON EVERYONE!" Zoro yelled as everyone grabbed onto whatever they could. "DON'T GET THROWN OFF THE SHIP!"
"WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!" Nojiko yelled as Usopp, Chopper, Carue, Johnny, and Yosaku slid around, trying to maintain there balance.
"Why are there ships falling out of the sky?!" Alvida yelled while Luffy hung to the mast, laughing his ass off at the whole sight.
"Now's not the time to be laughing Luffy!" roared Gin.
"It's just a dream! It's just a dream! It's just a dream!" Grace repeated quickly as she hung to Valerie, who hugged her back and increased her weight while holding onto the stairs of the deck so as not to get thrown off.
"Grace is right!" Usopp yelled with a giant smile, his eyes wide and bloodshot. "This has to be a dream!"
"Really?! Thank-" Chopper yelled before the two of them slammed into each other head first.
"MORE OF IT'S COMING DOWN!" Sanji yelled as he looked up. "LUFFY! DO SOMETHING!"
"WHAT'S HE GONNA DO?!" Nojiko yelled.
"ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN HANGING TO THE MAST!" Sanji yelled.
"What's up, Usopp?" Luffy asked as he noticed Usopp sitting lotus-style with his hands clapped together, a calm smile on his face with his eyes closed.
"Close one's eyes, and cast away one's fear." he said. "And when I open my eyes, I see nothing but a calm and peaceful-SKELETON!" he yelled as a skeleton fell in front of him. "GET IT AWAY FROM ME!"
"DON'T THROW THAT THING OVER HERE!" Nami yelled.
"MORE OF THEM ARE COMING!" Johnny yelled.
"WHY ARE THE DEAD RAINING FROM THE SKY?!" Yosaku yelled while Vivi changed to her candy form and stuck herself and Carue to the mast. Robin was the only one who wasn't yelling in a panic as debris kept on falling from the sky. After a few more chaos filled minutes, the debris ceased falling from the sky.
"What in all the Blue Seas just happened?" Gin asked.
"I haven't the faintest idea." Alvida answered while Vivi melted off the wall of the cabin with Carue while Usopp and Chopper trembled together in a tight hug.
"I'm really starting to hate the Grand Line!" Usopp yelled in a freaked out voice. "First that ship graveyard in the Rainbow Mist appears! Now they're falling down on our heads, with skeletons included!"
"Is it over?" Grace asked as she peeked an eye out from under her hat, her arms still clinging to Valerie.
"Oh no!" Nami yelled as she stared at the Log Pose on her wrist.
"Now what?" Johnny groaned
"More ships falling?" Yosaku asked as he looked up at the sky again.
"The Log Pose is broken!" she said. "It keeps pointing at the sky and nowhere else!"
"The Log Pose isn't broken." Robin said calmly as she stepped forward. "The Log Pose registers an island with a strong magnetic pull, and the needle is relecting that. If it's pointing to the sky," she said as she looked up to the sky. "Then it must mean it's pointing to Sky Island."
"Sky Island?!" they all asked.
"Are you saying that there's an island up in the sky above us?" Valerie asked.
"Is that where the ship and skeletons that fell on us came from?" Usopp stuttered out.
"I don't see anything like that up there." Zoro said as he looked up at the sky.
"Not quite." Robin said. "What's actually up there is an entire sea."
"An entire sea?!" Nami said while Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, Johnny, and Yosaku looked like little kids about to go on a carnival ride.
"That's a little hard to believe." Sanji said as Luffy pointed a finger to the sky.
"Alright! Time to set sail for Sky Island!" Luffy yelled.
"You heard him guys!" Usopp yelled. "Let's go!"
"And how exactly are we gonna do that?" Gin asked while Robin sprouted a set of arms and covered Luffy's mouth. "It's not like this ship can sprout wings and fly."
"Truth be told, I've never seen Sky Island myself." Robin said before she and Nami started to argue about the Log Pose, with Robin saying that no matter what happens on the Grand Line, the Log Pose always points the way. While they spoke, Luffy and Usopp jumped towards the broken ship and began looking around. Robin had opened up a casket that was among the wreckage that fell and began to piece the skull back together that was inside. After some work, she pieced it together and began to explain all that she could tell from the skull. His age, how he died, what sea he came from, along with the ship that fell from the sky and where it came from as well, including how old it was. The rest of the crew just stared as she worked while Luffy and Usopp looked around the ship.
"Found it!" Luffy said in excitement as he held up a chart in his hands with a smile on his face.
"What is it?" Ussop asked before water started pouring in. "Tell me on the ship!" Usopp yelled as the water quickly came up to their waists. Usopp kept Luffy above the water before he swam the two of them back to the ship. The two of them were now on the ship, soaking wet, with Luffy looking at them all with a huge grin.
"I found it!" Luffy said as he held up the chart in his hands. "Check this out guys!"
"A map of Sky Island?!" everyone said as they looked at it.
"Skypiea?" Nami said as she held the chart in her hands.
"Then it's actually real?!" Nojiko asked before some of the men cheered. Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, Johnny, and Yosaku began dancing, arms locked over the others shoulders as they began to sing about Sky Island.
"You're celebrating too early." Nami said. "Fake maps like this are pretty common." Luffy stared at her while the others looked crestfallen, their eyes looking devoid of happiness. "Ah! It's real! It must be!" she said before she slammed her fist onto the mast. "But whether it's real or not doesn't matter! I don't know how to get this ship up to the sky!"
"I do." Luffy said with a huge grin, surprising Nami and most of the crew.
"You do? How would you know?" Nami asked.
"Nami." said Zoro, gaining her attention. "Remember what Luffy told us in Alabasta?" Nami looked at him in confusion before her eyes widened. Luffy had come from the future, so he DID know how to get to Sky Island.
"You know Captain?" Robin asked. "Have you been there before?" Everyone was now looking at Robin, some of them with a bead of sweat on their foreheads. Robin was the only one who wasn't there when Luffy explained that he was from the future, and they had no idea how he was going to explain it to her.
"I'll tell you later Robin." Luffy said before he stared out at sea. "Right now, we need to get to that ship that sunk."
"Why?" Nami asked. "If you know how to get there, why do we need to get onto that ship?"
"Because there's something on it that we'll need." Luffy said. "And it's something you'll like as well Nami."
"Treasure?" Nami asked.
"We have a storage room full of treasure!" Nojiko said.
"Some of us are sleeping in the kitchen or crow's nest since you had some of the treasure moved to the men's bedroom." Gin said in irritation. "Why couldn't we move some of the treasure into the women's room? Nami obviously doesn't have trouble sleeping on the stuff, so it could double as her bed."
"Because Vivi and I share a bed with Nami." Nojiko said. "Plus, Nami would never wake up."
"I'd gladly sleep on spikes if it meant letting Nami happily keep her treasure~!" Sanji swooned.
"Dumbass Cook."
"What'd you say, shitty Marimo?!
"Trust me. We'll need it." Luffy said.
"Alright! Let's salvage that ship!" Nami yelled.
"AYE!" most of the men yelled with nets in their hands.
"THOSE WON'T DO IT!" Zoro yelled while Chopper asked Robin what salvage meant. Robin explained that it meant they would pull the ship up from the water, but that the ship was too big to be pulled up by their ship. While Usopp worked on something to help them salvage, Robin stared at Luffy with a thoughtful expression.
'What exactly do you know, Luffy?' she thought. Luffy had been a bit of a puzzle to her at times, and this whole deal with him saying that he knew how to get to Sky Island had ripped a few pieces away. This peaked her curiosity about the rubberman that was her current captain, who was now encased in a suit made of barrels and air hoses, alongside Zoro, Sanji, and Gin.
"Don't worry guys. My design is flawless." Usopp bragged before a couple of pterodactyls flew by at low altitude, causing a nearby sea king to come out and eat one of them.
"Well, good luck." Nami said before they jumped. "We'll be praying." The quartret sank beneath the waves and looked around them, seeing everything that was beneath the waves due to sunlight making it's way down.
"This is Chopper." Chopper said as he and Usopp kept the air flowing in. "Sound off."
"This is Luffy. Lot's of monsters down here!"
"Looks like we're above a nest of seasnakes."
"This is Sanji! Whoa! They're staring right at me!"
"Man, these things are huge!"
"Alright." Nami said.
"How is it alright?!" Usopp asked with wide eyes.
"Good luck Big Bros!" Johnny and Yosaku cheered.
"Be safe guys!" Vivi yelled while Carue quacked.
"Bring me a souvenir!" Valerie laughed. Everyone was looking over the railing before they heard a whistle and cymbols being played in the distance.
"Salvage! Sal~va~ge!" sang the men on board.
"What's that?" Chopper asked as Usopp lowered on of his goggles down to get a closer look. They saw a ship bigger than the Going Merry coming towards them. It had a monkey's face with no eyes with bananas as crossbones as it's mark, with the ship looking like a tiny jungle on deck, and a giant monkey with cymbols as it's figurehead.
"All hands! Full stop!" someone shouted.
"AYE AYE, SIR!"
"This is where the ship sunk?!" the same voice called out.
"AYE AYE, SIR! BOSS!"
"Boss! That's ME you're reffering to!" shouted the man, though he looked more like an ape. "Prepare to raise the ship! That sunken ship is now the owner of the Boss of the Masira Pirates, Masira, the Salvage King!" he shouted as he and his men started cheering while making monkey sounds.
"Just what we needed." Nami said as most of the crew were giving them all strange looks. "More weirdos."
"Hey, you guys! What are you doing?!" Masira shouted as he looked at the Going Merry. "This here's my turf!"
"Your turf?" Nami asked.
"Exactly! Any ships that sink around here are mine!" Masira said. "You guys better not be trying to steal what's mine!"
"So he's going to salvage the ship then." Robin observed.
"Sounds like it." Usopp said.
"So what? We let them do it?" Alvida asked.
"Stop whispering!" Masira shouted. "Answer my question!" Nami was about to say something, but Vivi opened her mouth first.
"We're sorry." she shouted. "We didn't mean any harm. We were just trying to find a way to Sky Island!" she said, causing a few of them to slap their hands over her mouth, thinking that Vivi's kind heart and tendency to try and use words at situations like this were going to get them killed. Masira's eyes widened at her words, which was noticed by the Straw Hats on the ship.
"Did you just say 'Sky Island'?" Masira asked in a low voice. Some of them were trying to make up an excuse before Masira and his crew began to laugh. "To think that I'd actually meet pirates who believe that story!"
"Is...something wrong with wanting to go to Sky Island?" Chopper asked.
"HEY GUYS!" Luffy shouted, making some of the Straw Hats jump before Usopp and Nami clamp their hands down on the funnel.
"What was that?" Masira asked.
"Nothing!" Nami said with a forced smile. "Anyway, about th-" Nami said before she felt a wave of haki come up from beneath them. The Straw Hats and Masira Pirates looked down beneath the waves, silence filling the void.
"What...was that?" Masira asked as another wave came, this one more powerful and knocking out a few of Masira's men.
'Luffy! Not now!' Nami mentally yelled. Suddenly, an enormous blast of Haki erupted from beneath the waves, now causing all but Masira and the Straw Hats to faint, the some of the Straw Hats looked like they were trembling. Finally, Nami moved her hands and spoke down the funnel. "What?!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'WHAT'?!" came Luffy's voice. "WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TALK TO YOU GUYS, BUT NO ONES ANSWERING! WE GOT WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR! PULL US UP!"
"R-Right!" Usopp yelled before they began to retract the hoses while Masira began yelling and slapping his crew awake. They were awake, but every one of them were shivering as if cold as they looked around in confusion before Luffy and his friends came up, with Luffy holding onto something. They were brought to the deck and got out of their barrel suits before Luffy let go of the waver.
"That's it?" Nami asked in disappointment and irritation. "That's what you went down there to get? What is this?"
"It's something really cool!" Luffy said with a big grin.
"HEY!" Everyone turned to see Masira jump over onto their ship and glare at them all. "What's going on here?! What did you guys do to cause my men to pass out?!"
"Sorry. That was me." Luffy said. "I tried calling, but no one answered." Masira just raised an eyebrow at his answer.
"Anyway Luffy," Vivi said. "This...man, and his crew, own these waters according to him. They don't want us taking what they wish to salvage."
"I heard you guys are trying to get to Sky Island." Masira said. "Is that true?"
"Yeah." Luffy said with a smile. "The Log Pose keeps pointing up. We even found a map on that ship before it sank." He then took the map from Nami and showed it to Masira. Masira didn't move for a moment as he stared at the map before he started laughing. He then turned towards his ship with a smile on his face.
"MEN! AS OF RIGHT NOW, THESE GUYS ARE OUR FRIENDS!" he called out, earning a cheer of monkey sounds from the crew.
"Just like that?" Usopp asked while Masira gave them back the map.
"I believe in the legend of Sky Island as well!" Masira said as he looked at them again. "And I know just the guy who could help you get there!"
"Really?" Nami asked.
"Of course!" Masira said. "But first, I've got a ship to salvage. MEN! GET READY TO SALVAGE!"
"AYE AYE, SIR!" they called back as Masira walked towards the railing and put one foot on it before looking back at them.
"As for that map and that strange thing you pulled from the ship," he said before he smiled. "Keep them!" He then jumped back and began to shout orders to his crew to get the salvage operation underway. The Straw Hats watched as they worked to bring the ship up, except for Robin. She eyed Luffy, who was watching in fascination as the giant monkey figurehead came out and submerged. She couldn't help but wonder what he and the others were talking about earlier. She was snapped out of her thoughts when everyone began shouting about a giant shadow beneath the waves pass right underneath the both of them.
"What is that?!" Usopp shouted as the others all looked at it before the hoses that were beneath the waves began pulling in the direction the shadow was going. Suddenly, night fell across the whole area, causing everyone to look around in confusion. Their gaze was captured again as they watched in stunned silence as something came up from the beneath the waves, revealing an island sized turtle.
"WHERE'D THAT THING COME FROM?!" Grace and Valerie shouted.
"It's huge!" Gin yelled.
"HEY!" Masira yelled, completely pissed. "THAT OVERGROWN TURTLE'S EATING THE SHIP WE WERE SALVAGING!"
"This day just keeps getting weirder." Alvida said before she and the rest of the crew saw Masira staring off into the distance and trembling. The Straw Hats looked as well before they all started turning blue with fear. 5 Massive shadows that made Elbaf giants look like ants appeared. Each one looked like a human with wings on their back and were portrayed on the clouds in the sky. Everyone was petrified at the sight, including Luffy, before the one in the middle raised a spear above it's head.
"MMMMMOOOOOOOONNNNNSSSSTTTTTTEEEEERRRRRRSSSSS!" Faster than blinking, the Going Merry sped off at high speeds across the water, each of the men on board rowing with everything they had.
A/N: We'll stop there. Reviews are appreciated.