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Bold is for attacks

Steve's POV

We slowly sailed towards the forest in the Upper Yard. It took a while but we made it to the entrance.

"Ready everybody?" I asked "Last chance to turn back."

"Let's go!"

As well slowly proceeded forward there was an eerie feeling due to all the skulls and blades in the river, we had to dodge swinging axes and saw blades too.

"Paddle faster!"

"What the hell is this place?!"

A short distance past the axes we got attacked by a giant lamprey. Eventually we reached the end of the path and had to choose from one of four entrances to go to next.

"Ordeal of String, Ordeal of Iron, Ordeal of Swamp, and Ordeal of Spheres. I guess we have to pick one." Sanji said.

"Probably doesn't matter we'll end up having to do them all in the end if I had to guess." I told him.

"Let's go to sphere's that one sounds the most fun." Luffy said.

"Fine spheres it is. At least that one sounds remotely tame." I said agreeing with Luffy.

We sailed into our chosen tunnel and it got very dark. When we came out of the tunnel we fell right off a cliff. We splashed down at the bottom of the cliff in a forest full of floating balls.

"What kind of trial would we have here?" Luffy pondered "If I had known it be this boring, I'd have chosen a differ route."

We calmly sailed through the forest waiting to see if there was some kind of trail here. Luffy and Usopp started playing with the clouds much to my behest, suddenly the one they were bouncing popped open and a snake jumped out. Sanji tried to kick another that was coming towards the boat away but when his foot touched it the cloud exploded.

"What's with these things?!" Usopp yelled out.

"They're called Surprise Clouds."

We looked up and saw a very round man dancing around on the spheres floating past.

"Who are you?" Sanji asked the man "Are Nami and the other girls okay."

"You shouldn't worry about them. Worry about yourself, if you can't get past me you can't save them anyway." The man told us.

Luffy went to attack the man but his punch was easily dodged. The man put his palm near Luffy's face and blew him back.

"What the hell was that? A normal punch shouldn't affect Luffy." I said in fear.

"It wasn't a normal punch." The man explained.

Sanji ran at the man but his attack was avoided again.

"I saw that, with the power all God's priests have Mantra." The man explained as he blew Sanji away like he had Luffy.

What's with this guy?

"Whip Crush!"

"You are going to swing vertically right for my chest." The man said spinning to dodge my attack "Impact."

"Gah!"

I got sent flying back into a tree with a pressure attack.

Feels like I exploded form the inside.

"My name is Satori, one of God Eneru's Priests." The man said introducing himself "and this is my forest of illusion. Oh look there's your boat you better catch it or you never get out."

The boat's floating towards the exit on its own.

"This is my ordeal of spheres. The survival rate is 10%"

Usopp went off to stop the boat while Luffy, Sanji and I stayed behind to deal with the fat man.

"Gum-Gum Pistol!" "Whip Lash!"

Satori avoided the attack and grabbed Luffy's arm and my whip and pulled us together. Luffy and I collided and banged our heads into each other.

"Now where did those other two go?"

The priest flew off after the other two and I had to collect myself and Luffy from the floor.

"Get up you lazy moron!"

"YAAA!…where'd he go?"

Luffy and I ran after the priest and found him attacking Usopp. Luffy ran up and used Gatling which sent most of the orbs flying and knocking into each other.

Crap. It like were stuck on a pool table.

One flew at me and I tried to whip it away, when I hit the ball a shock came through the whip and burnt my hand.

"It's full of electricity." I said trying to cool my hand.

Luffy fell through the river and grabbed a vine to fly away from the priest.

Idiot

Now Usopp and Luffy were both swinging around the forest on vines and ropes. Sanji and I pulled the two down and beat some sense into them.

"Stop screwing around. You listen to me got it." I told them.

"Yes sir."

"Now let's forget about the boat for the time being." I said "We'll catch up to it later-!"

Something's coming!

I ducked and saw a hand appear above my head.

"I missed?"

"Crush elbow!" I slammed my elbow into the man's face and knocked him over "Don't sneak up on me."

The man got up and collected a large group of spheres and assembled them in a line "Sphere Dragon!"

"Your boat is getting farther and farther away. You all finished." Satori taunted.

Luffy tried to attack but he missed yet again. The priest explained that if we hit the wrong sphere the whole dragon would explode.

How's he moving that thing?

I looked closer and saw that the dragon was being led around by the rope on its head.

"Luffy cut the rope so he can't control the dragon!" I yelled out.

Luffy did as he was told but the priest pulled the other side of the rope and Luffy dragged the spheres towards him. The resulting explosion shook the forest but somehow Satori was still standing.

"That was dangerous." Luffy told the man holding onto his back.

"You're not dead! Let go of me."

"Don't let him go." Sanji said floating over on a ball.

Sanji gave some dumbass speech the ended in him saying he was starting the 'Ordeal of Love'

"That foresight of yours is useless if you can't move to dodge." I told the man.

"Concasse!" Sanji foot slammed into the top of the man's head finishing him off.

"Hey I found the boat let's go!" Usopp yelled.

We used Usopp's dumb hook-shot weapon to catch up to the boat. We got bounced around a lot but we did end up back in the boat.

"OWW!"

"Next time I'll use my arms" Luffy said.

We escaped the forest and exited out into what looked like a mass grave. Inside that graveyard we were passed over by a group of warriors on those sky skates. One of the men fired a bazooka at us but Luffy launched it back.

"That was the guy who attacked us when we got up here." I pointed out.

"If you don't want to die, go back to your Blue Sea. Otherwise I'll end you like I'm going to end Eneru. You don't belong here." The man skated off into the forest following his allies.

What's with him?

"Get back here bastard!"

"Let him go Luffy, we have more important things to worry about." I said settling Luffy down.

We have to find Rose and Robin. Maybe if I save her she'll give me a thank you kiss.

"What's with that look on your face?" Luffy said staring at me

"Shut up rubber boy."

We spent the rest of the day following the Milky Way hoping to get to the end and find our friends and our ship still intact. We hit one last drop and arrived at a lake with a large alter at the center.

"There it is!" Luffy yelled.

We sailed up to the alter and found the others had just arrived back at the ship. Speaking of the ship she was in bad shape; the mast was missing and there were burn marks all over. Apparently, the ship was attacked by one of the priests and Chopper had to call the Sky Knight to come help him and both the ship and Gan Fall were hurt in the fight.

"We can stay on the land tonight it'll be easier to fight there if something happens." Sanji suggested.

"Yay camping!" Luffy yelled hoping off the ship.

We set up camp along the shore and each recounted the day we had. Usopp compiled all the information and wrote it down. We had learned that the priests had the ability of Mantra, so they could predict our moves. Nami said that this island used to be part of Jaya and the lost city of gold was up here in the sky.

"An island of gold huh?" I said

"Sounds like an adventure." Luffy said

We looked at each other and smiled, the message understood.

"It's decided! We're gonna steal that gold!" We yelled.

AN

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