Chains That Bind Us |One Piece

Sky Island 17

The men of the White Berets had began loading their captain onto a stretcher, the left crawling with Pagaya and Conis back to their house. It left the nine criminals the option and chance to leave. Nami had explained that she witness a terrible power on her ride. "So you did go to that forbidden holy place." Zoro came to this conclusion since that was the only place she could have seen this so-called power.
"The place we must never, ever set foot?" And Luffy's eyes began sparkling in excitement.
"There are terrifying people!?" One would think that this question was asked out of fear, however, it was from Lián and she had sparkles floating around her as she was also excited.
"No more for you two!" Usopp had panicked as he placed his hands over the captain's ears, as Chopper gripped onto Lián leg as if to stop her from leaving.
"I'm not sure if they're God or Guerillas, but I am sure they're nothing but trouble!" Nami continued to say to them, as she was very scared. "Anyway, we're leaving! Right now!"
"Parting with Conis-chan breaks my heart... but if Nami-san says so~!" Sanji seemed to be in slight distressed upon leaving.
"As long as we're here, those two will be in serious trouble!" The navigator reminded them of this fact.
"She's right! If they're mistaken for our accomplices, their lives will be ruined!" Usopp was in agreement with her as he explained how they they should leave as to not cause anymore trouble for Conis and Pagaya. "Let's head back! Let's go!"

A few minutes later Usopp, Chopper, Robin, Jian and Lian were on the Going Merry, Sanji and Zoro were in the half way to the ship as they were standing in cloud ocean. All of them were looking back to the shore where their captain and navigator were still standing. "What are you doing, Luffy?" Nami was asking him as he wasn't moving despite everyone else already on the ship or heading to her.
"Why are we running away?" He had come to ask her, not understanding.
"Because we're in danger!"
"Aren't we always in danger?" He had responded back with, as they were pirates they were always chased by the marines.
"But, this isn't just about us. We might get those two arrested too!" She tried to remind him of Conis and Pagaya that were helping them before.
"But they didn't do anything wrong." That was true. "Arresting them is what would be wrong."
"You've got a point, but..." Even Nami couldn't deny that fact.
"How long do we gotta wait?" Usopp was beginning to lose patience as he was watching from the Going Merry.
"Jiji-chan, I'm bored!" Lián whined as she sat on brother's back, kicking her legs out in front of him.
"Just wait." He told her, not even bothered by her on his back acting like a whining child.
"Please run away!" But then the voice of Conis had caused everyone to look over and see that her father and herself were caught by the White Beret, whose captain seemed to have recovered. "Hurry!"
"Crap!" Seeing them had caused Nami to began panicking.
"That's enough, young lady. Know that if you try to aid these criminals, you two will suffer grave consequences as well." It was then when Captain McKinley came to warn Conis of this fact. "At any rate, for repeatedly directing abusive language towards us, and for the obstruction of public servant... These Class-5 criminals are sentenced to cloud-drifting!" This had been announced to all present.
"But I told you that was an accident!" Nami tried to yell in protest. "Jeez... Hurry!" She had grabbed Luffy's wrist and tried to run towards the Going Merry.
"ARREST THEM!" But then some of the White Beret had stepped forwards with bows and arrows that were directed towards Luffy.
"Please run away! You can't fight them!" Conis had tried to plead for them once again. Both Zoro and Sanji were getting ready to jump into the fight.
"Fire!" They had drawn back their bows. "Milky Arrow!" The arrows had been released and when they had been, white clouds had shot out behind them as they flew towards Luffy.
"Go on ahead, Nami!" Who had pulled his wrist out of the navigator's grip.
"Okay!" She had taken off for the ship without hesitation, leaving the flying arrows to the captain. Luffy had began leaping in the air to avoid the on coming of arrows heading for him. He had managed to dodge them but when he come falling down due to gravity, he fell on top of a hard stream of cloud.
"What is this stuff?" He was slightly panicked upon asking this and looking above to see more clouds streams. "Clouds?" He began climbing up on them only to see more arrows being fired, causing him to duck to avoid them.
"Charge... White Berets!" then the White Berets had skates on their feet upon leaping onto the clouds. They had began riding them like they were nothing. Luffy had to leap up to avoid the men, who had come to a stop once they had passed Luffy, turned back around and were smirking.
"What? How're you doing that?" The young man had let go of the stream above and was back onto the cloud he had before on before.
"Get him!" However, instead of answering that came to chuckle before pulling out knifes before once again charging at Luffy.
"It's so fluffy i cant run!" This was being shouted by Luffy as he was trying to run on the clouds, but it was like running in water. He was being attacked from all directions as the White Berets were leaping at him from cloud to cloud, which he was able to dodge.
"Watch out!" Conis was screaming at him.
"How foolish. Trying to escape from us." While Captain McKinley glared on, mocking the young man running.
"So that's it!" Luffy seemed to have figured something out as he hung upside down, watching the White Berets now line behind one another. "A skate type, huh?" It seemed he had finally figured out how they were able to move on the clouds without sinking. "Pretty neat!" He had flicked back down onto his feet, which had been when they had began charging at him once again. "You guys have some pretty cool stuff!" He didn't seem to care that they were charging at him, ready to attack once again. However, the moment they swung at him they were shocked to see it had been an after image of him and that Luffy was high in the sky.
"What the..."
"What the hell is he?" They looked on in shock as his arm was stretching.
"His arm... His arm stretched!"
"My word!" Even Conis and Pagaya were in shock upon seeing it.
"Wow... so that's Lulu-chan's Devil Fruit?" This had been the first time that the twins had seen his abilities in action.
"He stretches, huh?" Jian didn't seem all that impressed, unlike his sister.
"Go Lulu-chan!" Lian was screaming at the top of her lungs, cheering the young man on in excitement.
"Gomu Gomu no..." Luffy's body had began spins around rapidly.
"Impossible...! The Devil's Fruit!" Captain McKinley shouted in shock as he came to realised that the young man was no ordinary person. He had stretches and wraps himself in his own arms and legs like a rubber ball.
"... Hanabi!"  When the rubber rebounds and the 'ball' is unwrapped he unleashes a flurry of punches and kicks of increased speed, that go in every direction due to his fists and feet bouncing back and forth. This attack had taken out all the White Berets like it had been nothing.  All but one that was hiding in the smoke cloud, his bow draw and ready to fire at Luffy who had his back to him. However, a sword and leg had taken care of him in a second.
"That reminds me... Nami!" Zoro had placed his katana away before turning to the navigator. "What's our financial situation right now?"
"50,000 beli left." She had answered from the Merry.
"50,000? That's all?" He was pretty surprised at the small amount they had.
"Usually, that's only enough to last us one or two days." This had been explained to them, as she was the one in charge of the money.
"Why are we so poor?" Luffy had asked in confusion. "As your captain, I have to tell you. you need to be more careful about how you spend our money!"
"IT GOES TOWARDS FEEDING YOU!" But hearing this from the chef caused him to be completely shocked.
"Yosh! It seems my idea to use Formation B was a success." Usopp had spoken with his arms cross, all proud like.
"Really!?" With Chopper standing on the railing looking at him in shock, thinking that what he said was true.
"When did he do that?" Lian glanced towards her brother asking him.
"Ignore the moron." But as per usual, he didn't seem to care all that much.
"The White Berets..."
"They beat them..." Conis and her father couldn't believe what they just witnessed. In their eyes, the White Berets were powerful people that no one has even been able to defeat, and yet Luffy was able to do so without any problems. "I thought people from the Blue Sea were supposed to find strenuous exercise difficult here." There had also been the fact that since they were high in the sky, those before the Blue Sea's lungs were built for this high in the sky, however, these people didn't have any problems.
You fools! Complete idiots! However, just when they thought everything was fine, hysterical laughing comes from the forest. "There's no going back now!" Luffy and that had glanced over to Captain McKinley that had shouted this as he was standing there, batted and bruised. "You should have just obediently followed our orders! The White Berets are the most gentle and understanding of all the guardians of Godland. But they... will not be so forgiving!" The moment he said that, Nami already knew who 'they' were. "You are now Class-2 criminals! Beg and plead all you want... the Priests of Upper Yard... will be the ones to judge you! Heso!"