One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda
Kingdom Hearts characters belong to Square Enix and Disney
OCs belong to me.

-Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Five-

"Yeah...almost..." Nami panted, clearly beginning to run out of breath as she stood a couple of feet ahead of us. "Almost...just a few more steps..." she assured us as if that would motivate us to keep on moving forward.

"Do you mind telling me what you saw? Or at least shut up—ow!" Zoro grunted as I smacked the back of his head, heavily scolding him for his rude behavior.

"On second thought, I'm hearing more of a tide rolling in—you?" Robin asked as she suddenly looked toward Zoro and me.

"Yeah, it sounds like a charging army and some explosions thrown in for good measure" Zoro nodded in agreement just as the ground started to shake.

"Whoa!" I flinched, already losing my balance as I stumbled forward, only to quickly be caught by the swordsman beside me. "Thanks..." I muttered, blushing as he helped straighten me out before giving my lower back a comforting pat.

"No problem, klutz" he teasingly grinned, causing me to narrow my eyes and puff out my cheek. Owlishly blinking, we quickly turned our heads forward when we suddenly heard a loud giggle before hastily pulling away from one another when we saw the playful look on Nami's face as she eyed us.

"Don't start..." I embarrassingly muttered, crossing my arms as she softly chuckled.

"Anyways," Zoro cleared his throat, "with any luck, it's a distraction from what we're doing."

"Or they're attacking our friend" Robin suddenly suggested.

"Chopper?" Zoro questioned with a raised brow. "He's tough for being so fuzzy, when the time comes, he can handle himself" he waved as if attempting to dissuade us from getting too worked up with worry for the reindeer's safety.

"He's our tough little warrior" I softly smiled...though I couldn't help but look back in the direction of the ship in slight concern at the possibly thought that he was in danger. Surely whatever we were hearing had nothing to do with the reindeer...

Surely...

"What about the others?" Robin inquired, an amused glint in her eyes.

"You mean Luffy?" Zoro asked.

"Luffy's not really known to sit still and just let people attack his crew" I reminded her.

"Exactly, and he's the one who wanted to come here to begin with" Zoro nodded.

"I don't know what this God has hidden out here, but I doubt he'll let our captain just walk through" Robin admitted.

"Between that, your theory, Nami's mental breakdown, and this other battle..." Zoro started.

"This whole thing has gotten more complicated" Robin finished for him.

"That's what I was going to say" he childishly huffed. "Anyways, our shipmates are used to being in trouble, so I'm not worried—getting bent out of shape because of things that haven't happened is a waste of time."

"Good point" Robin chuckled.

"We should probably catch up with Nami" I said the minute I took note of just how far ahead the navigator had gotten from the rest of us.

"What? Nami—wait, Nami!" Zoro shouted, already trying to get her to slow down or at least stop so that we could catch up.

"I wonder why she took off so fast" Robin pondered as we quickly went after our navigator.

"Figures—sees what she wants and she has no problem on her feet" Zoro huffed.

"Ain't that the truth, maybe she saw something valuable while up there in that tree" I jokingly chuckled.

"Unbelievable..." Robin mumbled in slight awe once we finally caught up with Nami and saw just what it was she had seen up in that tree.

"Wow!" I whistled.

"Hey Nami, if you don't tell me what it was that you saw, I'm—" Zoro cut himself off as he now stared dumbfounded at the other half of Cricket's house.

"Speaks for itself pretty well" Nami grinned. "Look at it, it's almost unreal, and it's no fairytale—we've all seen what it belongs to. How did it get all the way up here?" she curiously pondered.

"The amazing part is how it's still intact" I said, amazed that after all this time, it still hasn't tumbled over.

"That doesn't make any sense, why would this be here?" Zoro frowned in confusion. "It looks the same, it's like a copy" he noted.

"But it's not" Robin shook her head, quick to dissuade him from thinking such thoughts.

"How do you figure?" Zoro asked.

"This is the other half of what we saw before" she answered him.

"Go on" he urged, motioning for the woman to continue with that thought of hers.

"It bugged me for a while—why is it that we walk on soil here instead of island cloud?" Robin questioned. "This is dirt, there's nothing in the makeup of the White White Sea that would make for its existence, so the ground that we're walking on shouldn't exist up here. Upper Yard was originally on the ground" she concluded.

"I knew that house was off when I saw it" Nami said. "Thing is...it's a two-story house and there's no staircase leading up to the second story, what would make you build a house on the edge of a cliff? But it wasn't a cliff at all!" she eagerly explained as she referenced back to Cricket's home. "This was the half of the island that was ripped away—this island used to be a part of Jaya!"

"So what you're saying is that a few hundred years back the island below us split in half and one side of it rose into the sky?" Zoro questioned, raising an eyebrow in disbelief.

"It was basically shot up into the sky" I corrected.

"Do any of you know how that could have happened?" Zoro asked.

"It'd have to have been the Knock Up Stream that did this—it sounds ridiculous, but that's the best that I can do" Nami assumed with a shrug. "The City of Gold that Noland found didn't sink to the bottom of the ocean like he had guessed—this part of Jaya has been floating in the sky for over four hundred years! Yahoo! Good God, thank you!" she cheered as she threw her arms up in the air. "I can't believe after all this suffering that we endured to find Sky Island that it turns out to be the City of Gold! Which must be your way to award me for my good behavior—right, God?

"You're just great!" she happily squealed.

"Shut up" Zoro frowned. "Ten minutes ago, you were scared that this God was going to kill you" he irritably huffed as he pointed out this little well-known fact.

"Come on now, don't go raining on her parade" I chuckled. "Besides, now that gold's involved, it makes sense for her opinion to do a complete one-eighty" I said, lowering my voice so that only the moss-haired man heard me as I had no desire to feel the ginger's wrath if she were to hear my comment.

"Well, call me shallow, but I don't care how scared I get as long as somebody has gold waiting for me" Nami grinned.

"See" I said, motioning toward her as if she had just proven my point—which she basically just did.

"So...do you fear or praise this God?" Robin asked. "I'm confused" she admitted, not quite following along with Nami's logic.

"Alright, I'm done keeping up with your mood swings" Zoro huffed as he crossed his arms.

"I believe what she's trying to say is that despite her fear of this God, now that she knows gold has been added into the equation, she's going to still fear him but also praise him at the same time" I explained, causing the two to nod in understanding.

-Later-

"Chopper! Where are you, Chopper?!" Nami shouted as we made our way back to the ship. "If you can hear me, answer! Are you there?!" she continued to shout.

"Chopper, it's just us! There's no reason to be scared!" I called out after a moment of silence with no response.

"Look! Her mast is gone and a wing is ripped in half!" Zoro pointed out the minute the ship came into view. "What has he done to her since we left?" he frowned

"Obviously the Going Merry was attacked, Chopper couldn't have done that to her!" Nami scowled, not liking how quick the swordsman was to place the blame for the ship's condition on Chopper.

"Oh, I hope he's alright..." I worriedly mumbled, nervously biting my lower lip as I drank in the damage.

"Chopper, I'm sorry we took so long!" Nami apologized as she desperately began to call out to the doctor once more. "You can come out now! You'll be safe, I promise! At least give us a sign that you're not dead!" she frantically shouted, growing more and more scared the longer the reindeer took to respond.

"So, I guess that means that he's dead" Robin said when all we received as a response was silence.

"Wouldn't kill you to think positive!" Nami snapped.

"He's most likely hidden away somewhere and is too scared to come out" I reasoned with a frown. "Worst-case scenario is he's possibly hurt and can't call out for help" I said, stomach churning at the thought of him hidden somewhere and unable to move or even call out for help.

"Hey, Chopper—come out! Because Nami and Skylar are scared and I'm tired!" Zoro shouted after heaving a tired sigh, making it clear he wasn't in the mood to deal with anything too serious at the moment after our long and eventful day of exploring.

"Hi..." shyly did the doctor finally come out of hiding, his body wrapped up tight in bandages as tears now streamed down his furry cheeks. "E-everything stayed ship-shape w-while you were gone..." he shakily sniffed.

"You don't have to lie to us, Chopper" Nami assured him. "Be strong, tell us everything that happened" she encouraged.

"We're not mad at you, I promise" I gently smiled in hopes that that would help in calming him down and make him more willing to explain to us what had happened while we were gone.

About an hour had passed since we reunited on the ship, now sitting around and sharing with each other the events of our day after we had split away from one another. It wasn't long before our attention was soon dragged away from the conversation at hand and toward the sound of a familiar boisterous laugh.

"We found it! There's the altar with the Going Merry sitting on top!" Luffy loudly cheered as he, Usopp, and Sanji came riding toward us on a small boat.

"Nami! Robin! Skylar! I missed you so much!" Sanji swooned, wildly waving his arms around alongside Luffy, his lips tugged up into a wide grin as hearts danced all around him. "Sorry to keep you waiting, but I did the Ordeal of Love to get here!" I owlishly blinked at the small growl that emitted from the back of Zoro's throat as he glared at the blond.

"I thought it was Spheres, not Love?" Luffy questioned with a confused frown.

"If that was love, I don't ever want to find it again..." Usopp grumbled in annoyance. "Anyways, who cares? We're alive! We're alive!" he cheered in relief, sounding quite happy to know that they had survived whatever hell they had endured to get here.

"Sounds like they're happy to be here, safe and sound" Nami sighed.

"Wonder what kind of troubles they had to face to get here" I curiously hummed as the three finally reached the altar and boarded the ship after climbing the steps. Each of them now looking around in shock at the damage that had been inflicted on her.

"Where's the…mast?!" Usopp shouted once he realized that the entire mast was missing from the ship.

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