Ordeal of Balls:
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Zoro, Nami, and Robin walked through the forest of Upper Yard each with a different purpose. Robin was there to explore the island in the sky's vast history. Nami had come along at the mention of valuable treasure. And Zoro wanted to have a face-to-face encounter with God.
"Enough is enough," Zoro complained, "Where is this God?"
"It may not matter," Robin replied, "If He really is a God, chances are He already knows exactly where we are."
"Well if he would just come to us I could get this thing over with," Zoro remarked.
"You say that because you haven't seen the things I have," Nami insisted, "There is somebody or something on this island with the ability to destroy us." She thought back to the red-haired man she'd seen when she came to Upper Yard with Y/N. And how that bright light had descended from the sky and completely vaporized the man. There was nothing left where the man once stood except a ring of dirt and the notable destruction that had been inflicted on the forest.
Nami quickly dropped to her knees and prayed in the hope that God would spare her. "Oh Powerful One, we are but simple sailors. Please leave us in peace. Oh! And also please help us find lots and lots of treasure."
"Nice prayer Nami," Zoro dead-panned. He once again wondered which was stronger, her sense of fear and self-preservation or her greed. What he could remember from Bonsatsu Island put her firmly in the 'greed' category.
Zoro walked along one of the roots of the enormous trees and stared out at the river of Sea Cloud that they'd reached the bank of. "Look, you can sit on your knees and pray all day," Zoro said, "but it's not gonna get us out of here. I say we cross the river and see what's on the other side."
"Yes, I agree," Robin stated.
"And how do you plan to get across this time?" Nami inquired, "I don't see any vines handy. Hey Zoro, maybe you could throw Robin across and she—" Nami was cut off when the dirt under her feet started to crumble and caused her to tumble towards the river.
Splish! A Sky Shark popped out of the Sea Clouds with its mouth wide open and ready for Nami to fall right into it.
THWAK! Zoro rushed in and shoved Nami backwards while he lashed out and kicked the Sky Shark in the neck and it flew across the river and slammed into the bank on the other side. Meanwhile, Nami fell backwards when Zoro shoved her but was caught by a cluster of arms that quickly grew out of the huge tree root she was about to slam into. WHUP!
"Aaahh..." Nami gasped as she slid back down to her knees.
"Grr... those things are everywhere!" Zoro growled.
"If you think I'm crossing that now, you're out of your mind!" Nami told him. "I may as well just hop in and give the sharks a free snack!"
"Calm down!" Zoro scolded her, "It'll be fine. We'll just keep walking upstream and hope we find a safe place to cross over."
"Give up, I'm not going!" Nami insisted. "I knew I should've stayed behind with Y/N..."
"Maybe you should've!" Zoro snapped, "If you're so scared then why'd you even come in the first place!" Zoro and Nami glared at each other and were about to dissolve into an all-out shouting match when Robin slid down the nearest root and interrupted them.
"Hey guys," she called out as she knelt down and rubbed her hand on the dirt at her feet. "Look at this..."
"Look at what exactly?" Nami asked.
