This is the 30th chapter. I don't own the series of One Piece.
BrianShooter672: I've done told you, it's no! Luffy is gonna fight Eneru this time, because his body is made of rubber and he's got the advantage while the so-called 'God' doesn't because his body is made of electricity! It's basic science! Rubber and Electric don't mix!
The Ordeal of Spheres!
Skypiea, Upper Yard
After Sanji and Usopp left to get to the 'Crow' before its heading toward the exit without them, Luffy and Caius were left behind to fight against Satori. Apparently, Satori was able to beat Luffy easily because he predicted his movements with ease, but the Reaper was able to damage the priest. Satori was also able to beat him with the 'Impact' and leaving the Reaper wounded and Luffy stuck his head in the tree.
"Oh good, looks like these two will sticking around for a while." Satori said with a laugh.
While Luffy is still trying to get his head out, Caius was thinking of a plan to at least take that fat priest down before he gets to Sanji and Usopp. Caius was already familiar of the 'Mantra' Satori was using, which it was the Observation Haki, an ability that can predict their opponents movement and it got him an idea.
'Shrouded Escape' Caius then vanished instantly which Satori is wondering where the Reaper is and what's he planning.
'Dark Fog' Caius then covers Satori with dark fog, leaving the priest confused.
"Soul Slice" Caius then twirls his scythe and slices Satori, absorbing a little of his soul and making him grunt in pain.
Satori, however, still has tricks up in his sleeve as he kicked the sphere at him. Caius leaps to avoid it, but only for it to explode and sending him flying, crashed against the branch with a grunt.
"Very clever, but not clever enough! See, it won't matter if you cover me with fog to prevent me on using 'Mantra', I still have spheres all around in this forest!" Satori mocks with a taunt, laughing and dancing on the sphere he landed on. "Now, where did those others scampered off too? I'll be also disappointed if they got away."
Satori began searching for Sanji and Usopp, but saw the cook kept running.
"There we are." Satori said.
Sanji was running to find the gondola and ride it to get his crew and leave, but he turns to Usopp, who's on the top of the tree branch.
"Hey, Usopp, you see it yet?!" Sanji called.
Usopp is searching for the gondola with his goggles, but mostly looking at the Milky Road since Satori started the borrowed vessel and making it drive on its own. Then, he found the gondola heading at Sanji's direction.
"There she is!" Usopp shouts.
"Want to tell me where?" Sanji asks.
"Straight ahead! Climb up the...One, two, third tree on the right!" Usopp told him, points at the third tree. "You can jump on when she passes beneath you!"
"Gotcha!" Sanji replied.
Sanji dashed to the third tree to get to the 'Crow' as he then starts climbing up, but the laugh was heard and it got Usopp's attention by turning his head, noticed Satori.
"Oh, crap! It's that priest!" Usopp exclaims in panic. "What's he doing?!"
As to answer that question, Satori kicks the sphere to Sanji and passes Usopp, who panicked even more and knows where it was heading.
"Heads up, Sanji! Killer Ball coming your way!" Usopp warned him.
"What?! What's Luffy and Caius doing back there?!" Sanji shouts surprisingly.
Both Sanji and Usopp can only watch as the sphere is heading straight to him, letting out whatever sort of surprise it had for him. But apparently, the sphere hits another sphere and ricocheted towards the other, and then heading straight to Usopp, making Sanji panicked.
"Surprise Cloud Billiard" Satori called out with a smirk which Usopp is confused and noticed the sphere heading at his direction.
"Usopp!?" Sanji cried out his name as Usopp begins to panic.
Usopp tried to jump off the branch to avoid it with bulging eyes, shark-like teeth, and in teary eyes, but because of his long nose, the sphere still made contact with him.
'That fat freak was aiming for me! At least I died like a man!' Usopp mentally whimpers with an inward scream when the sphere made it on the nose.
POP!
The sphere showed a flower at the top, leaving Usopp dumbfounded.
'What...a flower?!' Usopp mentally thought.
"Hmm...it was a dud." Satori said in disappointment,
But despite that, Usopp still took a lot of pain after jumping off the tree branch and it causes him to hit the ground hard with a grunt.
"Bastard!" Sanji yelled as Satori continued to dance on the sphere.
Meanwhile, Caius, somehow manages to protect himself with him slicing the spheres in half, chasing after Satori. Considering that Luffy was still out of action, he knew the priest would go after Sanji and Usopp. As soon as he arrived, he saw Usopp on the ground, unconscious.
"Usopp!" Caius cried out, shaking him. "Come on, wake up!"
But as soon as Usopp smacks him, he regained his conscious.
"Ahhh! That was dangerous! I thought I was gonna die!" Usopp shouted.
Luffy then eventually, finally pulled his head out of the tree as he lands on the tree branch with a laugh. He then turns to see Satori as he charges after him.
"ALRIGHT, YOU, THAT DOES IT! NOW YOU MADE ME MAD!?" Luffy yelled which it got their attention as he readied his fists. "Gum-Gum: Gatling"
Luffy then leaps in midair, unleashing his multiple punches to attack Satori, but instead, he recklessly punches the spheres which it causes it to bounce around the other spheres and bounced each other.
"Luffy, stop!" Sanji shouts. "Use your head, you're only making things worse!?"
Luffy then stops the attack and realizing he made it worse, seeing the spheres bounces off each other.
"What the-!? What the...AAAAH!" Luffy shouts.
"Oh no! It's too late!" Usopp cried out in panic with bulging eyes and his jaw dropped.
"Take cover! They're coming at us from all sides!" Sanji warned his crew as Satori laughs with amusement since he's unaffected by the scene.
"Have fun, boys, I'll be watching!" Satori comments as he jumps from sphere to another sphere to get to safety.
The Straw Hats are now getting ready to avoid the spheres heading their way. Sanji saw two of the spheres heading his away, jumps to avoid the first that has spears and the second that a huge crab inside. Caius jumps from the tree branch avoiding the spheres while slicing one of them with his scythe, tried to get to safety. Usopp takes a few steps back when he saw all four of the spheres heading his way.
"AAAAH! Not all four of them at once!" Usopp shouts as he ducks for cover while the spheres passed next him and hit the tree, sticked together and the birds were popping out while singing in sync as he turns to them. "What the? Another dud? Nah, I'm not that lucky."
The birds then sings again, making Usopp drop his jaws.
"You got me all freaked out over nothing!?" Usopp exclaims, but regains his composure. "Hm, oh wait, maybe it's part of the Ordeal. Well, if it's a singing contest you want. Get ready, people call me 'Captain Golden Voice'."
Usopp then clears his throat, about to sing when one of the birds hit the bell.
"Hey, I haven't even sung yet!" Usopp protests with an air-slap, but noticed the birds surrounded him and starts beating him up.
However, one of the spheres had fireballs on it and Luffy was really unfortunate enough for one of flames to hit him in the ass with his pants on fire. Luffy is now yelling and running around like a headless chicken, looking for something to put the fire out. With little to no care for the inability to swim and out of desperation, Luffy jumped into the Milky Road to put the fire out, or at least tried to and only ended up in a sky-sea serpents mouth. Though, he was able to put the fire out, but only for his ass to get bit in the process, causing Luffy to yell in pain and jumps out of the sea serpent's mouth.
Caius could only watch from his position at the tree branch, away from the spheres.
"Idiot..." Caius muttered in annoyance when Luffy then fell in and through the Milky Road.
"I went straight through!" Luffy grunts with a cough.
"Luffy! You gotta catch yourself! None of these rivers have a bottom!" Sanji warned him.
Luffy seemed to have heard him and stretched out an arm to a branch, more specifically a certain Reaper was at. He grabbed his ankle and pulled himself up, which he was actually pulling Caius down and causing him to stab his scythe on the branch to prevent that. In turn, Luffy pulls himself up and to the branch.
"Thanks, Caius!" Luffy said, unaware that he almost pulled both himself and Caius into the Blue Sea.
Caius slowly climbed back on the branch he almost slipped off and glares at him.
"YOU IMBECILE!" Caius yelled angrily, whacking Luffy in the face hard, knocked him and causes the rubber captain to fall back to the Milky Road.
As Luffy fell, he saw a vine nearby and stretches him arm towards it, pulling himself away from the Milky Road. But he pulled himself up too far while still holding onto the vine.
"Too much!" Luffy said as he swings down to another vine, but he's now having fun swinging around, even adding a jungle cry.
"WILL YOU GET SERIOUS!?" Caius and Sanji yelled in annoyance with bulging eyes and shark-like teeth.
"Usopp Hammer! Usopp Hammer! Usopp Hammer! Rubber Band of Doom! Usopp Hammer!"
Meanwhile, Usopp was able to give the birds a good beating to the head with his hammer, knocking them all out. Though, the birds did a number on him, mostly his faced was bruised a bit and left him heavily panted. He then heard Luffy having fun and looking up to see him swinging aroun. It gave him the idea.
"Oh yeah, that reminds me! I should try out my new thingy!" Usopp said, opened his satchel and took something out.
This didn't go unnoticed by both Sanji and Caius, turns and saw Usopp climbing up a tree and on the branch.
"What's up, Usopp? You got an idea?" Sanji asks, noticed Usopp had a serious look with his new invention around his waist.
"Do I? Friend, they don't call me, Usopp, the Technological Pirate Wizard, for nothing! Behold, my latest invention: Usoop AAAaaaAAAaaaAAAaaa!" Usopp said with confident smirk.
'I have a bad feeling about this.' Caius mentally thought with a sweat drop.
"Yeah, what?" Sanji questioned in confusion.
"Just watch!" Usopp said as he placed his goggles over his eyes and got a good view of the 'Crow'. "There's the 'Crow'! Milky Road, straight ahead! Perfect! Here we go!"
Removing the goggles, he then fires a rope from the belt and it was able to get hold of the tree branch as Usopp pulls it and the grappling hook attaches to it.
"Now what are they up to?" Satori questions himself, turned his attention to the three.
"Yes, now I just have to swing over there and catch the 'Crow'." Usopp said with a smirk. "But my time is gotta be absolutely perfect! If I miss it, that's it! We've only got one shot at this!"
Both Sanji and Caius were impressed that the sniper had a decent idea.
"Not bad, but how are you gonna get passed those spheres?" Sanji asks.
"Just let me worry about that! Did I happen to mention they also call me 'King of the Jungle'!" Usopp claimed. "Here goes! Usopp AAAaaaAAAaaaAAAaaa"
Usopp kicked himself off the branch and started to swing over to the 'Crow'.
"Yeah! It works!" Usopp shouts as he let out a jungle yell and just as he predicted, Usopp arrived just above their vessel.
"That's it, Usopp! Now just drop straight down, you can't miss!" Sanji told him with a smirk.
But for some reason thought, Usopp has the opportunity to drop down to the gondola, but unfortunately, he seemed to be struggling with his new invention.
"Usopp, what's wrong?" Caius called.
"Dammit! Just jump!" Sanji shouts, starting to get annoyed.
"Yeah, um...about that...just one small problem, I forgot the rope is sort of attached to the belt! I never really got around to fixing that part! Throw me some scissors or something!" Usopp explained, still trying to get the belt off.
"Then take off the whole belt!" Caius advised.
However, the advise came a little too late, as Usopp starts swinging away from the 'Crow', making the Reaper face-palm with a groan. Sanji and Caius then saw Usopp try to get back to the tree branch he was previously on, but only not to reach it and continues swinging. Caius felt that his bad feeling was spot on, tightened his grip on the scythe in irritation of how stupid both Usopp and Luffy are. Sanji also clenches his fists in the same irritation as him.
"Yoohoo! Hey, Usopp! What do you think?! This is a lot of fun, isn't it?!" Luffy shouts with a grin as he let out a jungle yell while Usopp whines.
"Luffy...Usopp..." Caius growls with dark expression on his face.
"I think we need to have a little word with those two." Sanji said in a same expression as he and the Reaper starts beating Luffy and Usopp silly.
And after a few minutes later of beatdown, both Luffy and Usopp stood bruised, bloodied, and beaten before Sanji and Caius. Sanji blows the smoke out of his mouth while Caius polishes his scythe.
"Here's the deal. We're gonna forget what just happened, but now you do what we say." Sanji said calmly.
"Right, I'm sorry." Luffy replied with a groan.
"Yeah, me too, what he said." Usopp adds.
"Okay then. First thing, we're gonna forget about the boat for now. Then, we're gonna all charge that fat freak at once." Sanji told them.
"What Sanji said is correct, getting to that boat is like we're entering death's door since Satori made it quite difficult for all of us because of the spheres and his power." Caius agrees. "However, I was able to land some blows onto him...and I can cover his sight with my fog."
Sanji, Usopp, and Luffy were surprised at that.
"So, you're saying there's a way to beat him?" Sanji questions.
"Yes, but it's like you said, we all charge that priest at once." Caius answered. "And we still need to work together if we're gonna beat him."
"Even so, I don't care what kind of powers he's got, with all four of us attacking at the same time, if there's a way to beat him, we'll find it." Sanji said.
"Oh? Don't be so sure!" The voice of Satori said as all four pirates were on alert the moment they heard him.
"Where did he go?" Luffy asks as they all look for Satori.
Satori appeared from above and landed right behind Sanji, which Caius was the first to notice.
"Blood Stalk" Caius summons his Voidsent to swipe Satori away, sending the fat priest flying and crashed right into the tree.
All three of his crew heard and turned, saw Satori coughing up blood out of his mouth as he stood up with a grunt in pain.
"Thanks, Caius." Sanji said as the Reaper nods.
"We're not out yet, it'll take more than a simple swipe to kill him." Caius told him.
"And like they say, life is pain!" Satori said, smirks.
Skypiea, Upper Yard
Meanwhile, a little girl is running through the jungle as fast as her legs could carry. She then leaps from the tree root to the other, then lands on the ground as she enters inside of the tree and entering underneath of the tree.
She's a small Shandia girl who had a short brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a fur dress and a cap with a white cloth on the sides. She's carrying a bag.
But unknown to her, Robin, Zoro, Leon, and Nami were continuing to walk through the part of the forest to find out more about Eneru or the Upper Yard. The Shandia girl collapses to her knees with a smile on her face as she started to gather some dirt and places them into the bag. Robin kneels down and extends her hand to Nami, who accepts and the archeologist pulls her up.
"Thanks." Nami said as Zoro and Leon follows behind them.
The Shandia girl stops gathering dirt when she hurt the footsteps as she turns with a gasp, scowls. She then quickly left the tree and flees. Nami sighs, but thought she saw something from a distance.
"Hey, did something just move over there?" Nami asks, turns to Zoro and Leon.
"I dunno." Zoro answered.
"You sure it wasn't some kinda wild animal?" Leon questions.
"Not sure." Nami replied, then turns to Robin. "Then did you see anything, Robin?"
"Nope, sorry, can't say I did." Robin told her with a shrug.
"Are you sure it wasn't a monkey or something?" Zoro asks when he and Leon were walking towards the navigator.
"A monkey? Yeah...I guess." Nami said.
"So, what do you think? Maybe we should check out the other shore." Robin suggests.
"Forget it! I told you I'm getting attacked by those sharks again!" Nami remarked.
"Here we go again." Zoro muttered.
"You're completely hopeless, you know that?" Leon adds in annoyance.
Upper Yard, Sacrificial Altar
Meanwhile, Ventus is still continuing to observe the area while keeping eye on the sky sharks, who are surrounding the sea of clouds. Chopper is looking down and see that the hammer is still at the bottom of the stairs, trying to think of a way to get it back. But despite that, Ventus knew that it was an accident and not on purpose.
"I don't think I can get near it, but I promised Zoro I'd fix the ship while they were gone. So, I have to give it my best." Chopper declared himself.
Chopper then quietly slid down the rails, which is quietly noisy.
"Just don't let them see you...Gently...Gently...Nice and easy..." Chopper said quietly, slides down to the bottom of the stairs.
'He does realize that noise is going to make them eventually, right?' Ventus mentally thought with a sweat drop.
Soon as Chopper got to the last step, he slowly walks over to the hammer and then had it on his hooves.
"Got it! Now I can fix the ship what I've promised!" Chopper said with a smile and was about to make his way back to the ship, heard a bird's caw and it got him freaked out as he starts screaming, but quickly covers his mouth.
It got Ventus' attention and Chopper starts turning his head, notices that the sky sharks are now underwater as one of them swam towards the reindeer. The sky-shark leaps out of the sea clouds with its mouth wide open and about to gobble Chopper up.
"Phlebotomize" Ventus then fires the projectile at the sky shark right in the neck, killing it in the process. "Hurry up and get back to the ship! More are coming!"
And the young Dragoon is right, more of the sky sharks are leaping out of the water with its mouths wide open and about to eat the reindeer. It got Chopper panicked as he quickly ran of the upstairs and making its way to the Going Merry. Chopper was able to get to the ship and then leaps up at the deck, panting heavy as he tilt his head upwards and noticed the whistle at the main mast.
"Oh yeah, the whistle!" Choppet said.
"What about it?" Ventus asks, turns his head and realized what Chopper is planning as he grabs hold of it. "Hold on! You're not planning on using it, are you?"
"So what if I am?" Chopper counters with a question.
"We only use it as a last resort or we get into trouble, remember? We can't waste it on something like this!" Ventus retorted. "And we can't blow under any circumstances!"
Chopper can only flinch in respond, remembering of what Nami have told them and fighting over it of who's the weakest.
"And another thing, I saw you fight against Chessmarimo back on Drum Island, even hearing about you helping Usopp take on Ms. Merry Christmas back on Alabasta." Ventus continued. "I mean, don't you think you were making an improvement?"
"Hm, now that you mention it, I did, but I'm still nowhere near as strong as you." Chopper told him.
"But you're still able to take care of yourself, though." Ventus points out, then sniffs the air and caught the scent.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Chopper asks.
"We got company." Ventus answered with a serious look on his face. "Chopper, put that whistle on your neck and whatever you do, don't use it."
Then, one of the priest was riding with a buzzard, flying towards the Sacrificial Altar and it got close to them.
"What's that?" Chopper asks.
"If I have to guess, I'd say it's one of the four priests." Ventus told him. "Figured one of the is impatient and decided to come to us instead."
Ventus then readied his lance while Chopper turns himself into a human form to get ready for a fight as the priest flew at the Altar and noticed most of them are missing.
"Just two? Surely, you're not the only sacrifices I get to kill." He said with a sneer as Chopper panicked and decided to blow the whistle.
Skypiea, Upper Yard
Robin, Zoro, Leon, and Nami continued to venture further through in the forest, decided to take a break when the archeologist noticed something from the wall.
'Cobblestone... We may find more clues if we see where this lead.' Robin mentally as they heard a whistling sound.
"Hey, you hear that?" Nami asks. "What do you guys think that was?"
"Quiet, don't move." Zoro warns her quietly, pulls out his katana.
Robin and Leon were also on alert, cautiously looking around the area.
A sky crocodile suddenly popped out from a Milky Road above Nami, prepared to gobble her up. However, Leon stunned it with his 'Thunder Barrett', Robin used his Devil Fruit power to clamp up the crocodiles mouth and Zoro just knocked it out while complaining about how sick he was of the creatures trying to eat them.
"What a day, huh?" Robin rhetorically asks.
"Try to be more careful." Zoro warns her, turns to Nami.
"Y-Yeah, uh, sure thanks." Nami replies.
Skypiea, Upper Yard
Meanwhile, Sanji, Usopp, Luffy, and Caius are still having a hard time fighting against Satori. Satori kept predicting the attacks, using his palm attacks on them, and even kicking his 'Surprise Spheres' at them. Usopp was sent flying to the tree with a loud crash, grunts in pain.
"Usopp!" Luffy shouts.
"Luffy! Look out!" Caius warned him, moving away from his spot as Satori kicked the 'Surprise Spheres' their way.
Luffy looked back and saw them coming, but took the chance and hoped they were duds, only for all of them to explode at him. Caius knew that Luffy won't listen as he turns to Satori.
"And then there's only one." Satori said, sitting on the sphere. "Hoh hoh hoo! Now then, what will you do?"
Caius knew that Satori is just toying with them and not taking the fight seriously because of his Haki and the Surprise Spheres, realizing he didn't have any other options as he looked at the fat priest.
"Your life...I'm taking it." Caius answered with a death glare as his eyes turned demonic black. "I just wish I didn't have to use it, but...I guess I'll make an exception...Enshroud"
That's it for the 30th chapter.
