The White Sea:
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"Gaaah!" Luffy gasped as the Going Merry sailed up the Knock-Up Stream and surged through the Cumuloregalus Cloud at the top of it. The rubber pirate spat out bits of cloud that ended up in his gaping mouth. SHOOM! The Going Merry flew out of the cloud and into the opened sky up above it. The chicken wings and chicken tail that had been added to the sheep-themed ship broke off before the Going Merry came crashing down in an ocean of white. SPLOOSH!
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Miles below them, Montblank Cricket sat outside his house on Jaya and stared out at the Knock-Up Stream with a fond smile. He didn't have to see it know that the Straw Hats had made it.
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Marshall D. Teach, Jesus Burgess, Van Auger, Doc Q and his horse Stronger sat on the one giant log that remained of their raft-themed ship and stared up into the sky after the Straw Hats.
"ZEHAHAHAHA!" Teach laughed, he seemed to find the whole situation hilarious. "Oh well! They got away!"
"Hee hee!" Doc Q chuckled, "That guy's lucky."
"SO WHAT?" Burgess snapped, "We're just gonna sit here and let him escape? WE JUST LOST A TWO HUNDRED FORTY MILLION BERRI BOUNTY! And you're laughing about it? Come on! We've gotta do something!"
"Zehahahaha! Easy Burgess!" Teach reprimanded his Helmsman. "They haven't left this world. They'll be back. We'll meet them soon enough as long as we're on the Grand Line."
"This is true," Van Auger agreed, "We are but cogs in the gears of Fate. And though they've managed to escape today, they can't run from destiny."
"Zehahaha!" Blackbeard chortled, "Y'see Burgess?"
"Ah, whatever," Burgess muttered.
"KOFF! KOFF!" Doc Q wheezed as the log that remained of their ship bobbed up and down on the waves while Blackbeard's laughter was carried over the roar of the waves as held a weird small brown bag in his hands.
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The Straw Hats laid scattered and panting on the deck of the Going Merry.
"What the... What just happened to us?" Zoro asked as he sat against the ship's railing, "Everyone alright?"
"Koff! Koff! All present and accounted for," Y/N reported.
"Hey! Look guys!" Luffy called out, "Out there! What is that?"
The Straw Hats glanced off of the ship in the directions their Captain had indicated and all they saw was white. Up above them were white clouds and down below them were white clouds.
"What in the world?" Sanji questioned.
"IT'S SO WHITE!" Luffy exclaimed.
"THEY'RE CLOUDS!" Chopper realized.
"But how?" Nami wondered. The Straw Hat's weather expert was completely perplexed by the presence of clouds that were solid enough to support their ship. "Why aren't we falling?"
"Do you want to fall?" Y/N inquired.
"NO!" Nami quickly answered, "But... this shouldn't be possible!"
"Clouds float, boats float, it's the same thing," Luffy 'reasoned'.
"No its not!" Zoro, Sanji and Chopper scolded him.
"AH! OH NO!" Chopper shouted when he spotted Usopp still lying prone on the deck. "USOPP'S NOT BREATHING!"
"HE'S NOT?" Luffy questioned. "SOMEONE DO SOMETHING! MOUTH-TO-MOUTH!"
