Two Dreams, One Adventure

Adventure In The Clouds

They were entering the black, thick cloud, finally. When they got out of it, the ship was floating on a sea of fluffy white. A sea of clouds. But everyone was having trouble breathing so high up so suddenly. But they were fine, if not uncomfortable. But that was in the past when everyone realized they were truly on top of a cloud.

"But the log pose is still pointing up!" Nami said in worry. Robin suggested this could be the middle of the cloud. Maybe there was further to go. "But how?" she asked. Everyone gave a collective shrug, before Usopp took off his overalls, and went for a swim, jumping into the clouds.

Luffy looked over the side, pouting that he couldn't swim. But he wasn't coming out after a while, too long, so they got worried before Robin mentioned there might be no bottom. It was a cloud sea after all!

"Did that idiot fall off the cloud?! I told him not to mess around!" Sanji raged. Robin shouted at Luffy to shoot his arm down as far as he could, and she'd do the rest. So he did, and Robin bloomed eyes on his arm before she saw Usopp, and extended many arms like a chain or rope to catch the sniper.

But it was hard to move his arm at all. It was still in water, it was still a sea. He struggled to pull him up, but it didn't take too long for his arm and Usopp to return to them. But... "Ahh! Something followed him out!" It was a huge octopus... thing! They screamed, the thing being huge.

Luffy counted on it to run away from them, but instead, seeing him, it stilled, no longer looking hostile. It nodded its head. "What's it doing?" Sanji wondered.

Robin said, "It looks like it's showing us respect. Interesting." And she did sound very interested. It left, though, peacefully. "That was odd." Usopp then screamed about a weird fish having been in his pants. "What a tough day for him."

Chopper then alerted them to another issue, which Luffy heard and smelled, too. Somebody skating on the clouds with a mask hurrying towards them. They couldn't really go anywhere at the moment, and weren't in the best shape to fight, still having a bit trouble getting in deep breaths. The man, clearly a human, used weird weapons and beat up the three strongest easily.

"Sky Island is so scary!" Usopp and Nami cried. Luffy stood up furiously, but could tell something flying was coming towards them.

"There's someone else!" Luffy shouted, pointing.

"Now what?!" Nami cried. The man on the flying thing hit the clear enemy with a jousting lance, and the guy left. Their savior landed on the ship and introduced himself as the knight of the sky. "Who are you? Who was he? And you three are pathetic! Three on one and you still lost!" Nami shouted.

Luffy said he had trouble moving his body. So did Zoro and Sanji. "That's because oxygen here is scarce. That's why we all feel out of breath."

Luffy was laying on his back still. "It can't be helped. Most Blue Sea people can't stand being up so high. The White Sea, where you most likely want to be, is 10,000 meters up," the mystery man said. The fighters sat up, insisting they were fine now. Chopper wondered who the guy walking on the sea had been before.

"They sounded so weird! Like a 'zoom' sound. But he smelled like dirt. We're in the sky! What the heck?" Luffy asked, and then the knight of the sky looked down at him in shock. "What?" Then he suddenly got on one knee in front of the still sitting Luffy, his lips in a tight line. "What are you doing?"

"I was about to tell you I charge helping you, but I assumed wrong." He didn't answer why he was acting like this.

"Perhaps there are others like Luffy here, and they're respected or worshipped in a way," Robin said with a smile. The others were surprised at this. Nami asked if that was true. The old man nodded. Luffy beamed. Not because he was treated like this, but there were others like him! "Well, for now, can you help us get higher? This isn't a place we want to be trapped in."