Two Dreams, One Adventure

End of the Battle In the Clouds

When he landed, it was in a ruin, and he was tangled around it. He managed to free himself and headed to where he knew his friends were. But he couldn't smell them, and carried the gold ball over his head more easily than he thought. He fell to his knees suddenly as his vision blurred. He needed blood.

His friends weren't there, so he followed their scent, assuming somebody took them. Robin was hit first, right? Maybe she recovered and took them all to safety. He hoped so, he hoped they were alive. He couldn't hear them speaking, but managed to get out and onto the upper level they'd fallen through into the golden city.

"R-Robin!" Luffy called, barely dragging the golden ball behind him, unable to hold it up anymore. Nami was there, safely. He got on his hands and knees, breathing hard before standing up and wobbling.

"Luffy! What's wrong?" Nami asked in worry. Usopp was awake. He'd recovered surprisingly quickly, too. The captain said he needed blood. Robin had a dagger and cut her arm.

"You need the strength, I'll just dribble it into your mouth, okay?" Luffy looked up and saw the black cloud. It would kill them all soon. He couldn't be picky, and Zoro was still asleep. Luffy nodded, and Robin dribbled a stream of blood into his mouth. Zoro's was a lot better, but that thought was in the back of his mind.

Once he had enough for one final confrontation, as this would be the last, he left, climbing up the beanstalk to get high enough to reach that damn flying ship. It was hard, and he didn't have enough time to have an extended fight. He had to end it soon, quickly. There was no time for him, and no time for the island or any of its people.

The lightning bolts started to rain down on the island, destroying multiple areas, seemingly random in their locations. He hoped most of the people were lucky and weren't unfortunate enough to be under one of the bolts.

Just dragging the ball was difficult, but he managed, pouring determination into it instead of blood. He had lasted a long time without being thirsty before, and hoped that would happen again. He made it to another level of the beanstalk. "Is this the top?" he asked. He smelled deeply and looked up, seeing the false god up there, looking at him in indifference again. The whole island stunk of burnt everything. Fire from burning trees in the forest, burnt clouds, burnt dirt, maybe even burnt people.

"Stop running and fight me!" Luffy called furiously. They needed to end it soon. For multiple reasons. But the asshole burnt the beanstalk with a lightning strike, knocking part of it over, almost making Luffy fall all the way back down. Could he even make it back up if he fell? But he didn't fall, and got back to safety.

He breathed deeply, and was distracted from Enel with a huge ball. A black ball that was dense but looked sort of like the clouds. It was falling out of the sky, a big hole in the main blanket of thunder clouds. He watched as it crashed down onto angel island... and eradicated it in a huge blast, a lightning explosion. So many people could have just died.

"Damn it!" he shouted. At least it was quick.

He latched his hand back on the edge of the ship, but the lightning logia kicked it off again, making him fall back on the highest tier of clouds on the massive beanstalk. "I'll be getting that golden bell, now! Don't worry, you'll die a quick death soon enough! Yahahaha!" His ship got higher away. Luffy growled under his breath, trying to figure out how to do something!

But now that he knew Enel was heading for the bell he wanted to ring for Cricket and the monkeys, it pissed him off. He would find it and ring it, not let Enel lay a finger on it, no matter what! He looked around, and looked up at what was left of the beanstalk as another huge ball of thunder was sighted lowering again. This time, over Upper Yard, bigger than the previous one.