This is the 10th chapter. I don't own the series of One Piece.

Residents of the Land of Eternity!

Rainbow Mist

After, Henzo, Luffy, Ventus, Usopp, Robin, and Zoro, who's still asleep, sailed inside of the Rainbow Mist and learned about the legend that was known as the ship's graveyard known as the Ape's Concert, they drop the anchor and docking the ship at sea. Robin was reading one of the volumes called 'Rainbow Mist' while Henzo listens to her explanation, Luffy was searching the wrecked ship, looking for treasures since he's not even taking it seriously as usual, Usopp was scared out of his mind, thinking that there might be ghosts here, Zoro is still sleeping since he's with his crew when they sailed towards the Rainbow Mist, and Ventus was sniffing the air, trying to catch his scent since most of the sailors have perished during their time sailing towards the mist and died. He was able to catch a scent, but he only smelled four which happens to be Henzo's friends.

Luffy is climbing at the ruined which his foot was stuck on the deck and his head hits at the wooden rail, leaving a red mark on his nose. Then, he noticed the view of the wrecked ships when his jaws dropped in excitement.

"WHA! Hey, look! There's sunken ships everywhere as far as you can see!" Luffy shouts excitedly.

"Why don't we just stop!?" Usopp protests with his face pale and fearfully, wrapped his arms around. "A ghost captain could be around here any minute now!"

"Really?!" Luffy exclaims, turns to the ship graveyard. "HEY GHOST CAPTAIN!?"

"STOP THAT?!" Usopp yelled at him in teary eyes with white eyes and shark-like teeth.

"'Beyond the Rainbow Mist lies the land of eternity, the final paradise remaining in the world. The area is filled with treasures of gold and silver, and its inhabitants live forever without aging or going hungry.' That's what written in this book." Robin told him after reading a book.

"I told you already, that's nothing more than a legend, a child's fairy tail." Henzo remarked.

"Earlier, you said this place is a ship graveyard, but how could you know such a thing?" Robin inquires, turns to him.

"Well, it was just a glimpse, but 50 years ago, I saw what was located here." Henzo answered.

"If you knew, why come?" Robin asks while Luffy and Usopp ventured inside of the wrecked ship, searching.

"Did you forget of what he told you?" The voice of Ventus said as he lands on the Going Merry, vanished his wings. "He's been conducting research about the Rainbow Mist in order to find his friend who are stuck inside of the mist 50 years ago. He even became Wetton's dog and live for being the hated man in order to find them."

"The young lad is right, I let myself become Wetton's dog and live with a scorn of the townspeople in order to reach my goal." Henzo explains.

While Luffy and Usopp continued searching at the kitchen, two of the shadowy figures were looking through the crack of the floor, watching them searching and quickly ran out of the ship, looking for the friends and warned them about the Straw Hats.

"Hey!" Luffy called out, earned their attention when they saw him and Usopp showed them the treasure chest. "Pretty cool, huh?!"

However, the wooden rail couldn't hold much longer since their weight couldn't hold them as it gave out by breaking, causing both Luffy and Usopp to fall into the Going Merry while the treasure crashed into the deck, causing it to open and the jewels were revealed.

"What is this?" Henzo questions in shock, looking at the jewels while Luffy grunts as he looks at them with a big grin.

"It's amazing! And there's a whole lot more left inside of the ship! I'm gonna go explore some more!" Luffy said as he goes exploring at the ship graveyard.

"Well, perhaps, this isn't a paradise, but the part about treasure seems true though." Robin states with a smirk, turns to Henzo. "So, maybe the book isn't entirely wrong, huh?"

Henzo can only respond by hum in thought while crossed her arms with a ponder, trying to find the answer while notice that Robin is right.

"Guys, we're not alone." Ventus warned them, sniffing the air.

And the young Dragoon is right when they heard the sound of a bell ringing that's coming from one of the wrecked ships as Robin and Henzo looks around while Ventus kept his guard up, readying his lance. Just as the bell ringing stops, the voice spoke which it sounds haunted.

"You dare to disturb the eternal rest of the dead?"

It got Usopp spooked as he quickly sat up with fright.

"Did you hear that?!" Usopp whimpers in fear.

"Leave the treasure and depart this place at once! If you do not, the curse of the dead will fall upon you all! Obey my words, or face the consequences!"

"I'm scared!" Usopp whimpers tearfully.

Luffy and Ventus, however, weren't exactly convincing about leaving since they're stuck inside of the Rainbow Mist, which said that sailors traveled to that mist and never to be returned. Ventus knew that four people were hiding somewhere around the different ships.

"Who's there?" Luffy demands when he climbs up at the top of the wooden railing.

Then, they heard the sound of the bell ringing again, but they saw ghosts revealing themselves at the ship which was nothing but white sheets. The number of ghosts were floating down at the ships and surrounding the Straw Hats with the sound of a bell ringing.

"GHOOOOOOOSSSSTTTTSSSS!" Usopp screamed in panic.

Luffy and Ventus narrowed their eyes a bit, staring at the ghosts while Robin widens her eyes a bit, and Henzo raises his eyebrow, knowing that it's child's play when someone tries to scare them and using the sheets as ghosts. Zoro was still sleeping whenever the situation is serious, which he usually sleeps at a times like this. Then, the sound of bell ringing was heard.

"Now, hand over the treasure, nice and easy...if you do not..."

Until, the shot of an arrow was heard as it shot right at the wooden rail above Zoro's head, making Robin gasp when she notices the arrow. Ventus turns to the source of where the arrow was shot at as he uses a Dragon Sight, notices a shadowy figure hidden inside of the ship.

"Zoro!?" Luffy exclaims, turns to the white sheets with a glare. "Why you?!"

Luffy then stretches his arm as he grabs the mast, launching himself into the air and staright towards the ghosts.

"ROTTEN GHOST CAPTAIN!?" Luffy yelled as he uses the 'Gum-Gum: Giant Scythe', clotheslined not only the old sails, but the white sheets which it got Usopp's attention.

"There's nothing inside the sheets!" Usopp shouts as he starts to scream in fear. "They're really ghosts!?"

"Idiot." Ventus muttered in annoyance, turns to the ship. "Robin, you notice something off about this so-called ghosts? Last time I check, ghost don't fire arrows at us."

"Yes, and now that you mention it, the arrow came from that direction." Robin answered, turns to the ship.

"What?!" Usopp exclaimed, noticed a shadowy figure hids inside of the ship as he grabs the megaphone. "Luffy, over here! Hey, Luffy, can you hear me?!"

Luffy ignores him while checks the white sheet, but noticed a string that's attached to it.

"There's someone over there! Look! Luffy, pay attention!" Usopp pleads, but Luffy still ignores him, causing him to yell with white eyes and shark-like teeth. "LUFFY, COME ON!?"

"There's a bow." Robin said, earned their attention when they noticed a figure was aiming at Luffy.

"LOOK OUT, LUFFY!?" Usopp yelled.

But it's too late, the shadowy figure fires the arrow as it head straight towards Luffy, but Robin uses her Devil Fruit power to sprout an arm next to him while grabbing the arrow.

"Luffy!" Usopp whimpered.

It got Pukau shocked of Robin's Devil Fruit power when she caught that arrow.

Pukau is a tanned, rotund boy with curly dark brown hair. He wore a purple overall with a dark yellow shirt underneath.

Henzo noticed the sound of gasp as he turns his attention towards the ship. Luffy pulls the string down, causing the boy named Akibi to fall off of the crow's nest, but he was swinging towards the Going Merry. Usopp turned his attention to Akibi as he readied his slingshot.

"Special Attack: Fire Star" Usopp fires the fire pellet at the rope, burns it and it snaps as Akibi scream when he was about to head towards the sea, causing Ventus to take flight and grabs the boy.

Akibi notices Ventus holding on to him while flying back at the Going Merry, landing on the deck as he puts him down.

Akibi has a short black hair. He wore a blue shirt with light blue polka dots, a green jacket above it, brown pants, and red and black shoes with white laces.

"You okay?" Ventus inquires as his wings vanished which gotten both Rongo and Isoka shocked that the young Dragoon saved Akibi.

But Rongo jumps off of the ship with the sword on his hand.

Rongo has a blond hair. He wore a blue sleeveless shirt with a smiley face on it, a white shirt underneath, blue shorts, and brown shoes.

"No, wait, Rongo!" Isoka protests as she jumps off of the ship.

The young Isoka has a longer purple hair, a blue-purple colored jacket with a green shirt under it, and a white stripped skirt.

"What are you gonna do to him?!" Rongo demands with a glare, but was restrained by Isoka.

"Rongo, you need to calm down!" Isoka told him when Henzo widen his eyes in shock.

"Hey, look." Usopp said, walk past Henzo while approaching the two kids. "It's just a couple of kids..."

And just as Usopp was about to get close to them, Rongo kicked him in the balls, causing the marksman to grab hold of his balls and collapses down to his knees with a squeal in pain. Rongo was about to ran after the young Dragoon when he points his lance at him and Isoka with a glare while his eyes dilated into a dragon.

"Choose your next move, little boy. Because you won't get another chance." Ventus warned him with a dragonic tone, leaving Rongo and Isoka frightened.

"Gum-Gum: I'm Home" Luffy stretches his arms as he launches himself towards the Going Merry, but accidentally lands on Ventus. "Yo! Thanks for the save earlier."

"Sure, you're welcome." Robin replied, but Ventus bonked Luffy in the head.

"DUMBASS! LEARN TO WATCH WHERE YOU LAND!" Ventus yelled with white eyes and shark-like teeth, leaving a bump on Luffy's head.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!"

They then turned to the source of the voice, saw a young Rapanui standing at the wooden rails of the ship with a bomb on his hand.

Rapanui wore a beige vest over a black and brownish-red long-sleeved shirt, a gray cuffed pants, and black shoes.

"We're the Pumpkin Pirates! Ape's Concert is our territory, and you're all trespassing!" Rapanui shouts. "Now, drop the treasure and let go of my friends! Unless want to die today!"

They noticed a bomb is on Rapanui's hand, meaning that he means business and he'll seriously throw the bomb at them.

"A bomb?" Luffy repeats curiously.

"Rapanui!" Isoka said with a smile while Henzo widens his eyes in shock.

"Could it be?!" Henzo exclaims, stunned.

"Hey, uh, you do realize that if you use that, you'll blow us all up?" Usopp asks nervously.

"You're all together on the same boat here!" Rapanui points out. "We live and die with one another, no matter what!"

Rapanui then jumps in midair, lands on the deck of the Going Merry as he slowly approaches them.

"Come on." Rapanui said.

"Thanks, Rapanui." Isoka thanked him, then turns to Rongo. "Hey!"

Rongo nods, approaches the two along with Akibi.

"Rapanui! It's really you." Henzo said, earned the kids attention. "You three, Isoka, Rongo, and Akibi. All of you are really here! Can't you see?! It's me! We always use to play together on Cape Rululuka! It's me, Henzo!"

"Henzo?" Rapanui repeats in shock.

"You know this guy?" Luffy inquires.

'And that's why you need to pay attention of what Henzo's tell us! Idiot!' Ventus mentally shouts in annoyance while Henzo walk towards the kids.

"Henzo? But...there's no way..." Isoka muttered.

"It's not true, not possible..." Rapanui adds while watching Henzo continued to walk towards him. "Stay back! I'll blow us all up! I'm warning you, stop it! Get back now!"

But just as Henzo was close to Rapanui, he pressed the button of the bomb as it starts flashing light at the Straw Hats, causing them to grunt while covering their eyes. After few minutes of flashing light, the light vanishes as the bomb was open, revealing a miniature Pumpkin Pirates Jolly Roger.

"It's the Ka-Boom Mk. III. I did invent that thing after all." Henzo told him, leaving the kids shocked. "It's just a gizmo you can use to trick your opponents."

The kids were stunned that Henzo knew the Ka-Boom Mk. III which he invented that bomb 50 years ago, but Rapanui isn't convinced as he slams the bomb against the deck and the smokescreen spreads around the ship.

"Damn! It's a smokescreen too!" Usopp grunts while coughing as Zoro yawns, finally woke up from his sleep.

"Hey, guys, what's with all the noise?" Zoro questions.

"And he finally woke up." Ventus muttered, annoyed of his usual nap.

"Wait! You slept through all of it?!" Usoppe exclaims with white eyes and shark-like teeth, air slapping him.

"Huh? Who's the weird guy?" Zoro asks when he noticed Henzo.

"That's gonna take a long time to explain." Usopp told him with a deadpan look on his face. "So, just hang on a minute, sleeping beauty."

Henzo, Luffy, Robin, and Ventus noticed that the kids are no longer on the Going Merry after Rapanui uses the smokescreen for him and the kids to flee.

"Henzo, care to explain how did this happen 50 years ago?" Ventus inquires, earned his attention. "We are curious of how the Rainbow Mist came here in the first place."

Henzo can tell the Straw Hats really wanted to know since they came into the Rainbow Mist and found his friends. Decided to tell him as he starts explaining about his past 50 years ago.


Ruluka Island, 50 years ago

50 years ago at Ruluka Island, Henzo, Rapanui, Isoka, Akibi, Rongo, and Pukau were playing outside of the cave at the beach. Rapanui leaps out of the top of the pillar that was shaped like a pumpkin, diving towards the water with a smile as he made a big splash and into the water. Henzo watches Rapanui merges his head out of the water, shaking his head as he and the others looked up.

"Henzo! Hurry up and get down here!" Rapanui shouts with a smirk, raising his arm while the kids giggled.

"B-But I'm scared!" Henzo shouts back in a scared tone.

"You can't be afraid of something small like this, we're the Pumpkin Pirates!" Rapanui told him.

Henzo turns his head toward the Pumpkin Pirate Jolly Roger for a few seconds, turns back to his friends as he gathered his courage, leaps out of the pumpkin-like pillar and dives down, made a splash into the water.

Few hours later, Rapanui and the others were inside of the cave making campfire while hanging their swimsuits to dry. Rapanui sighed as he spoke.

"You know? When I grow up, I'm going to be a real pirate." Rapanui told them with a smile.

"But, your father is in the Marines, isn't he, Rapanui?" Henzo questions, worried about him. "Would he let you become a pirate?"

Henzo was wearing a salmon hoodie and purple pants.

"Never mind my dad." Rapanui remarked. "I plan on having a great adventures and places that nobodies ever seen before!"

"Places that nobodies ever seen before?!" Rongo exclaimed shockingly.

"Of course." Pukau replied, earned his attention. "There's still a whole bunch of things in the world that nobody knows anything about yet."

It got Rongo smiled with excitement since he too wants to become a pirate.

"I like to see them, too." Akibi agrees with a smile.

"That's great!" Isoka adds. "I wanna become a pirate, too!"

"Yeah, but woudln't we have to fight with other pirates sometimes?" Henzo questions sadly. "I'm too weak for something like that."

"Well, you're really good at inventing different sort of things, right?" Rapanui told him. "So, then you can be in charge of making all the equipment we'll need for our adventures."

"Okay, I'll become a pirate with you guys." Henzo said with a smile.

"That didn't take much convincing, Henzo." Akibi joked as he and the group of kids laughed.

"We were all so happy back in those days. Such good friends, always playing and talking about something, that was the best time of my life. Every day was so perfect, so bright. It was more valuable than all the treasure in the world. Then, one day, something that changed everything."

The next day, a pirate named Wetton is sailing on a pirate ship towards the Ruluka Island as he ordered his crew to drop the anchor to land since he and his crew were about to invade the island.

While at the cave, both Rapanui and Akibi were at the pillar to check for the supplies, Pukau, Isoka, and Rongo were making camp fire, and Henzo is inside of the cave, inventing his gizmo when the flash of light appeared along with a loud explosion as the smoke appeared. It got them flinched when they heard a loud sound as they turned their attention to the cave, worried about Henzo.

"Henzo?!" Rapanui exclaims as he jumps in midair, rope sliding towards the cave, lands on the ground, and rushed inside of the cave when the smoke cleared. "Henzo! You alright?!"

Henzo coughed the smoke and he's a mess because his face is covered in soot, and his hair is messy. Henzo turns around as he shows the gizmo he's been working on.

"The Ka-Boom Mk. III! It's perfect now!" Henzo states, causing Rapanui to sigh with relief.

"You idiot! Don't scare us like that!" Rapanui scolds. "Geez, you sure do blow yourself up a lot!"

The kids couldn't help but smile a little since they were worried about Henzo at first, but all he did was blow himself up while trying to make his gizmo. But Akibi notices the smoke that was coming from the town, gasp in shock as he turns to them.

"Look, you guys! The town is on fire!" Akibi warns them, earned their attention. "The town is burning! Look over there!"

Rapanui, Henzo, Akibi, Isoka, Pukau, and Rongo ran up at the cliff, noticed the town is on fire as they watch their homes burned with dread.

"What the..." Rapanui muttered.

"What's happening to Ruluka?" Akibi asks.

"Oh no! My mom and dad!?" Rongo exclaims as he ran towards the town which it got them noticed that he's running into the burned town.

"Rongo!?" Pukau shouts his name as he and the group of kids ran after him.

At the town of Ruluka, Wetton and his crew were burning the town, taking the treasures, women, and children, and kill anyone who tries to fight against them. The people of Ruluka were forced to leave the town while watching their homes and markets burned.

He had red hair and red beard, and had blue tattoos on his front and arms, with a common dark magenta cape with dark blue trims and a bull Jolly Roger at the back, spiked armbands, black leather straps around his forearms, teeth necklace around his neck with a blue jewel, yellow sash, dark gray with black stripped pants, spiked sandals, and wore a nose ring on his left nostril. He carries an axe that has red bull's head that looks like the Tarielishin figurehead.

"Burn it all!" Wetton ordered with a sinister chuckle, smirked. "Leave nothing a value! Kill anyone who dares to stand in our way, do you understand me what's a pirate?! Show them no mercy! Get the women and children, too!"

Once Rongo was inside of the burned town, looking for his parents, Wetton turns over his shoulder when he noticed him and the group of kids are in the scene. Wetton turns around and chuckled at the children.

"They're pirates?!" Isoka exclaims with horror.

"Now what's this? Some children who aren't smart enough to runaway from here." Wetton states as he slowly approaches them, leaving the children, except Rapanui, whimpered fearfully.

"Listen up, guys! There should be some ships down at the harbor." Rapanui told them with a determined serious look. "We'll take one, it doesn't matter which and get outta here!"

"But then, what about mom and dad?!" Rongo protests.

"Idiot! Do you wanna get killed?!" Rapanui berates him, leaving Rongo flinched. "Now go!"

And with that, the kids starts making their way towards the harbor while Rapanui catches up to them. Wetton noticed the kids are heading to the harbor, leaping at the top of the roof, but Rapanui noticed as he looked up, saw a pirate leaps in midair with his axe rising up and letting out a shout. The kids and Rapanui were able to dodge the attack before Wetton lands on the ground, but he left a series of cracks and the rubble was sent flying. Rapanui leaps over Wetton, running towards his friends as the pirate stands up with a smirk, holding his axe over his shoulder while watching the kids heading towards the harbor.

"You won't get away." Wetton said.

Soon as the group of kids made it at the harbor, they noticed the ships were torn into pieces and sank down into the sea, leaving them stunned.

"The ships..." Akibi muttered.

"They're all gone! The pirates must've sunk them already!?" Pukau exclaims, but Rapanui noticed a pirate ship.

"Over there! We'll get on that one!" Rapanui suggested, points at Tarielishin.

"What? That one?! Are you sure?" Henzo questioned when Rapanui run towards the ship.

"Well, there aren't any others, right?!" Rapanui remarked as they catches up to him, running towards the pirate ship. "Hurry!"

Wetton was able to catch up and made it to the harbor, but he noticed the group of kids were climbing up the rope ladder towards his ship.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON MY SHIP!?" Wetteon yelled furiously with his bloodshot eyes and shark-like teeth.

While Rongo, Isoka, Henzo, Pukau, and Akibi were able to get up on the deck of the ship, Rapanui is climbing up on the rope ladder. It got them noticed of Wetton ran towards the ship, then throws his axe as it cuts the rope and the ship began to sail away. Wetton quickly sprint towards the ship, got enough distance as he then leaps at the ship, grabs the rope ladder, and then starts climbing. Rapanui jumps on the deck while Isoka uses the sword to cut the ropes, causing Wetton to fall down to the sea.

"Ker splash!" Rongo shouts with a smile, but the children felt something's wrong when they didn't hear a splash.

Suddenly, the sound of an axe catches the wooden rail causes the kids, except Rapanui and Akibi, to flinch when they saw Wetton at the top of the wooden rail.

"You've been bad little children, and must be punished." Wetton states with a smirk, causing Pukau, Rongo, Henzo, and Isoka to scream with teary eyes.

The sound of a sail unfurls was heard, earned their attention as Akibi swings his rope down and kicks Wetton, knocking him down into the deck and the four kids ran towards the stairs. Rapanui ran down the sails as he leaps down, stomps Wetton at the back, and then lands on the deck.

"Hurry! Up there!" Akibi shouts, lands on the wooden railing while points at the main cabin.

Rapanui tries to lift the axe which it's too heavy for him, despite his age and didn't have the strength. Wetton recovered from that attack as he stood up, stomps the handle of an axe, earned the kids attention when they stopped running.

"Do you really think a little runt like you can handle my axe?!" Wetton snarled with a glare, placed his hand on his waist. "You're too cocky for your own good, you little brat."

"I'm not a runt, I am the Captain of the great Pumpkin Pirates, Rapanui!" Rapanui declared.

"Rapanui!?" Isoka exclaims with worry.

"It's okay, he's just one man." Akibi assures her, turns to them. "If we all join together, we can defeat him."

And just before they're about to join Rapanui to fight against Wetton, they heard the door was opened.

"Oh, hey, Captain, are we setting sail already?" A man named Ian questions when he revealed himself.

Ianis a tall man with a large torso. He has long brown hair tied back into a ponytail. Over his chest, he wears a light-blue shirt with brown thread sewn into the neckline, a sea green sash, dark maroon pants with dark purple wrappings around his shins, and green sandals. Atop his hair he dons a striped blue and white bandana.

"IT'S ANOTHER PIRATE!?" Isoka, Pukau, Rongo, and Henzo screams, earned Rapanui and Akibi's attention when they saw Ian while Wetton smirked as he grabbed his axe, chasing after him.

"Who are you guys?" Ian inquires in confusion, noticing the kids whimpering.

Wetton then throws his axe, causing both Rapanui and Akibi to duck down as the axe breaks the wall and destroyed the helm. Rapanui and Akibi were running towards their friends, but the latter noticed something from the sea that was covered in Rainbow Mist.

"What is that?" Akibi questions when Wetton went upstairs, turns to him.

"The Rainbow Mist?! Hey, hurry up and turn the helm! If we get swallowed up inside there, we really won't be coming back!" Ian warns the captain with panic, but noticed the helm is already destroyed by the hands of Wetton. "Oh no! The helm is broken!"

Rapanui and the kids noticed Wetton got Akibi with an armlock.

"You'll pay, you brats!" Wetton snarled.

"Akibi!" Rapanui exclaims.

"I hope you weren't planning on getting off of this ship with your lives!" Wetton said with a smirk, grunts when he saw Akibi bites him in the arm, causing him to fling the child as he crashed against the deck.

Rapanui took his chance as he charges after Wetton, leaps in midair and flicks him on his forehead, sent the captain flying with a grunt which he grabs hold of the wooden railing.

"Akibi!" Rapanui shouts his name, ran to him when he's about to help him, but Akibi screamed in pain while holding his shoulder. "Your shoulder's dislocated."

"Rapanui!" Rongo called him when Rapanui turns, and saw an angry Wetton with blood bleeding down on his forehead.

"You punk..."

But Henzo pushes Wetton and himself out of the ship, it got them noticed along with four of the bombs on the deck which he doesn't want them to go empty-handed. Rapanui, Rongo, Isoka, and Pukau ran at the wooden railing when they saw both Henzo and Wetton were merged into the sea.

"Henzo!" Rapanui shouts. "Go back! We have to go back! Now!"

"We can't turn around!" Isoka protests. "The helm's busted!"

"The Rainbow Mist?!" Ian exclaims in panic. "Oh no! Not the Rainbow Mist!?"

"Rapanui!" Henzo called out, earned their attention. "You guys go on! Keep going! Don't worry about me!"

"Henzo!" Rapanui shouts.

"I'll come after you all later, I promise I will!" Henzo shouts back. "Imma Pumpkin Pirate after all! I'll see you again!"

And as Henzo watches the Tarielishin and his friends sail towards the Rainbow Mist, they vanished.


Rainbow Mist, Present

After Henzo his backstory and the reason why he became an inventor for researching the Rainbow Mist, he spoke.

"And after that day...after that day, Rapanui and the others never returned." Henzo told them. "I can't believe that in a place like this, and after all this time, they're still pirates."

"Back it up there, Mr. Mustache, I thought you said that all happened 50 years ago." Usopp protests, motioned his hand. "But when we saw them just now, they were still little kids."

"The passage of time in the Rainbow Mist appears to be different than ours is in a normal world." Henzo explains. "One day in here might be the same as a week or even a year out there. So, Rapanui and the others don't seemed to have aged."

"What?! Really?!" Usopp exclaims shockingly.

"If that's true, we need to find a way out of here quickly." Robin suggested. "If we don't, there'll be no undoing the damage."

"Why not?" Luffy asks, dumbfounded.

"How dense are you anyway?" Usopp questions in annoyance, turns to Luffy. "The same thing that happened to those kids and the Professor could happen to us, too! While we're stuck here doing nothing, Nami, Sanji, and Chopper will all get old and stuff in the real world!"

"REALLY?!" Luffy yelled with shark-like teeth in shock when he and Usopp started arguing.

"So, there's no way back?" Zoro inquires, crossed his arms with a serious expression.

"Maybe, there must be an escape." Robin muttered, looking at the book.


Ruluka Island

Meanwhile, Caius, Nami, Sanji, and Chopper were confronted by Lake, who somehow repaired the damage of his battle suit.

"Geez, stop. Really..." Nami muttered.

"He's persistent, that's for sure." Sanji states with a scowl.

"You know, I'm getting tired of your persistence and it's started to get rather annoying." Caius told him in annoyance, readied his scythe. "I suppose I should end this quickly."

"Well, aren't we all in a hurry!" Lake growled with a glare. "Since you want to die in a hurry, let's finish this!"

"Blood Stalk" Caius then uses his dark magic to summon his avatar, delivering a swipe of its claw as Lake was sent flying and crashed against the ground.

It got the guards screaming with fright as they began to flee. The Voidsent avatar turns to its master, waiting for orders.

"Go, hunt them down." Caius ordered as the avatar chases after the two guards, then he approaches Lake with his scythe points at him. "Now, since I'm feeling generous, tell us about the mist. Their crew went into that mist and vanished."

Lake can only whimper in fright, feared of the Reaper's glare while Nami, Sanji, and Chopper's faces were pale and white as a sheet of paper.

'He's scary!' Nami, Sanji, and Chopper mentally shouted.

After Lake got his battle suit off, he gives them an explanation about the Rainbow Mist which it got them surprised.

"Apes Concert? Is that what you said?" Sanji inquires.

"Yeah, Apes Concert, that's right." Lake replied. "Some of our soldiers reported that they saw your ship during the Rainbow Mist. There's no doubt about it. According what the Mayor said, there's all sorts of treasure piled up in there."

"Treasure?!" Nami said with glee as the 'B' letters showed from his eyes.

"I see, but they also say that the Apes Concert were also known as the ship's graveyard. Many of the sailors have sailed through the Rainbow Mist and never to return, that happened a long time ago." Caius states with a ponder. "So, who's been researching on the Rainbow Mist?"

"Oh, a scientist named Henzo is researching a way to get in there to Apes Concert." Lake answered. "But, there's also an untouched cargo that's just lying around: jewels, coins, and stuff. The Mayor wants the treasure."

"Does the Mayor happen to go by as Wetton buy any chance?" Caius asks again.

"Yep, that's my grandpa." Lake replies with a nod.

"Sanji, is it just me or does he asks?" Chopper questions as the avatar began to give Lake a scare, causing him to flee.

"Well, I suppose we have the information we need." Caius said, turns to the three while the Voidsent vanished. "It appears that Wetton wanted the treasure for himself, but I notice something was off about the old man."

"Why? What do you think it is?" Nami asks skeptically.

"Have a look at this." Caius suggested, shows them the wanted poster that has the image of Wetton. "Wetton happens to be a pirate 50 years ago, and he's currently the Mayor of this island. Apparently, he's using the name of 'Mayor' for his own selfish gain by raising taxes and uses the finances for Henzo's research of the Rainbow Mist. In other words, he only wants the treasure, nothing more, nothing less."

"Then, we can't just stand still here! We're going into that mist, too! So, let's get a move on!" Nami suggested.

"Yes sir, Nami~!" Sanji replied happily, gone goo-goo eyes with a goofy smile.

"But once we go inside, there's no coming back out!" Chopper protests.

"I'm afraid he's right, Nami." Caius agrees. "Unless you know a way to get back out, that is."

Nami was about to come up with an answer of how to go back, but she got nothing.

"Exactly." Caius said. "However, Henzo has one of those inventions he's been working on, and we might use it in order to get your crew back."

"I don't think so." The voice of Wetton said when he and the soldiers approaches them, earned their attention. "No one goes into Apes Concert without my permission. I have told Lake many times not to give away information to anyone."

"It's too late for tell him that, Mayor. Or should I say, Captain Wetton?" Caius inquires with a glare.

That's it for the 10th chapter.