Chains That Bind Us |One Piece

Upper Yard 6

The group had no idea where they were being led but for some reason they found themselves walking across the branches of trees. However, the sound of explosions had begun echoing through the forest, even causing it to shake slightly. "What was that?" Nami seemed panicked as they were all looking off in the direction the sounds were coming from.
"An explosion, obviously." Had been stated by Zoro with a lot of sarcasm.
"I heard one earlier too, but this one sounds a little different." Robin came to inform them of this.
"Is this what you meant about a war?" Andrew glanced at his sister beside him, asking her.
"Hmmm..." she began squinting her eyes in the direction of the explosion before answering. "Yep, it's definitely the same." She started with confidence while nodding her head proudly. "But that isn't important!" However, the girl began shaking her arms around. "Move it! Move it!" She began demanding them before leaping up to a branch, with wind blowing.
"What're you all worked up for, Andrea?" Zoro followed suit by jumping using a vain to get up to the one she had just been on.
"You've been acting excited even since you came back." Robin was also interested. "What did you see?"
"You see God or something?"
"Enough with your God!" Nami snapped as she was slowly following after them, trying not to lose her balance, however, that failed as she stepped on some moss  and began trying to regain her footing before falling on her butt.
"Jeez, why are you so clumsy?" Andrea was looking down at the navigator, her hands placed upon her hips as she looked either disappointed or annoyed.
"Shut up! Why do we have to travel this way!?" Only to be snapped up at.
"Why? Because it's funner this way." Had been the response given to her.
"IS THAT ALL!?" Which seemed to have angered her even more.
"No, she said it was also faster." Andrew was climbing up the vines as he spoke. "But it was mainly because it was fun." However, he also knew that this was most likely the main reason.
"It's like there's another Luffy or something..." Nami was muttering to herself as she pushed herself up.
"Anyways, quite wasting time and just spit it out!" The one in the lead had been snapped at by Zoro, that seemed to be losing patience. "What the hell did you find?"
"Like I would spoil the surprise!" But the girl's cheeks had puffed up. "All you need to know is that we're heading to the shore!" Had been all she was giving them.
"Hey, come and help me!" While the navigator was still slipping and demanding for help.
"The shore?" Not that anyone was really paying attention to her.
"Yep! You won't believe it!" Andrea was jumping around with excitement, her arms swinging up and down. As she had said that Zoro had acted like Tarzen once again, swinging on a vain which the girl come to follow.
"She's clearly excited at what she saw." Robin's words caused Andrew to glance over to her. "I have something bothering me as well." The woman was saying as she sprouted arms down like a rope to pull Nami up. "I have no definitive proof... But if my moonstruck hypnosis would happen to be true... it would be interesting." She had an amused smirk placed across her lips. "My reason to continue living may yet exist." The young man was glancing at the woman before his head turning to where his twin was in the distance. "But still, it's nothing more than a hypothesis."

The small group had continued on their path, once again walking on the ground and no longer in the trees. "We're getting close." Andrew spoken up as his head was lifted.
"Huh?" Zoro seemed confused by what he had ment.
"His right." However, Robin seemed to understand as she could hear. "I can hear the sound of waves. Listen." She instructed the swordsman to do so.
"Right! We're almost there!" Nami shouted loudly in exhaustion as she was starting to reach her limit.
"Yay!" Which had caused Andrea to take off running with excitement as they were almost at their goal.
"Oi wait!" The swordsman shouted out after her. "Just what did she see?" Since the girl had taken off like a rocket, his attention turned to her twin that stood beside Robin.
"Who knows." However, he clearly didn't know as he leaped down from the tree roots they stood on, following after his sister and the navigator that had taken off.
"I hear another sound mixed in with the waves..." This had come to be pointed at by the dark hair woman, glancing over her shoulder as she spoke.
"Yeah, a real nasty kinda sound..." It hadn't gone unnoticed by the green hair man. "The sounds of a whole army of people pushing and shoving. Kinda like what we heard in Alabasta." This had bee stated by Zoro, smirking slightly.
"Do you think we should be worried?" Robin came to ask both men.
"You don't have to worry about Chopper. He really comes through when he needs." Although it seemed that he wasn't all that worried about the little doctor that was left alone on the ship.
"Not about him. About the Captain and the others." However, it hadn't been the doctor she was speaking about.
"Luffy?"
"After we were abducted, he must have come after us." She came to explain her reasoning behind her words. The captain had wanted to come to the island despite everything said. "I don't know what God intends to do... but he most likely wouldn't let them pass freely."
"And then there's those guys over there starting their own fight." It had been pointed out about the war taking place on the island.
"The situation is getting more complicated."
"That'S for sure." This was something that couldn't be argued with. "But, they'll be fine. We're all used to getting into trouble. Making a fuss over something like that won't do us any good."
"True." Hearing this caused the woman to chuckle.
"Hey guys, hurry up!" Until the sound of Andrea shouting causing them to look ahead to see the girl waving at them. She had then taken off towards the light she spotted in the distance.

The group had taken off after her as she was running with excitement, more than before. "Why's she in such a hurry all of a sudden?" This could only be asked as Robin was walking after the girl with the others.
"Jeez, as soon as we see the sea, she gets all fired up." While Zoro was annoyed and covered in sweat.
"It better be something good..." Nami looked like she was ready to collapse as they were trying to catch up.
"Look Rewrew-chan!" Andrea was shouting to him as she had her hand placed on something cold and hard. "It's exactly what I thought!"
"Is this even possible?" Andrew asked, eyes slightly widen while looking at what her hand was on. Not even a moment later...
"Look at this..." Robin had spoken in complete shock upon finally reaching the twins.
"Oi, Andrea. I've had enough." Zoro was still slight behind them as he climbed up a root. "Tell us what's going-" but he had stopped mid sense as he too looked on shocked.
"W-What is it?" Nami was barely managing to pull herself up when she saw the same thing as the others.
"This is why I thought this place looked familiar!" Andrea ran to the front of the group all happily.
"We saw it just this morning." The navigator found the strength to completely pull herself up.
"What the hell does this mean?" This could only be asked in shock as the swordsman walked over to join Robin and the twins. "What's something from the ground doing way up here?" Nami was following after him. "It's exactly the same."
"That isn't right." However, it seemed that Andrew was in a disagreement on that fact. "It's only a piece of what we saw."
"A piece?"
"Yeah." Robin had been the one that chimed in. "It's been bothering me for a while. There shouldn't be any earth on the White-White Sea. It was inexplicable how this island formed without Island Clouds. Meaning, this island known as Upper Yard... used to be on the ground." The more she spoke, the more that things were beginning to fall into place.
"I knew there was something wrong with that house." It had been when Nami spoken up, catching their attention. It had two floors, but there was no staircase to get to the second floor. And there's no reason to build the house over that cliff." At the time she didn't understand to reason for it, but now it was making sense. "The coastline there was actually a tear in the island."
"Who would have thought that this place... was Jaya!" Andrea shouted in excitement as the landscape had transformed, revealing a hidden cove where the ocean met the land in a dazzling display of foamy waves and sparkling sunlight.
"So, some time in the past, the island split apart...and half of it ended up in the sky." Little by little, Zoro was starting to get the picture, however there was something missing. "But, how could that be?"
"Isn't it obvious?" He glanced over to Andrew who spoken up, his arms crossing over his chest. "The very same way we got here."
"That's right." Nami was in agreement with his statement. "It could only be that monstrous sea current. No matter how insane it might sound." One would think that something like that was impossible, unless experienced the current first hand. "This City of Gold that Norland discovered down on the surface... didn't sink into the sea. Jaya has always been here.... Floating in the sky!" With the fact being said out loud, they now understood why Cricket was unable to find any trace of the island under water. "Thank you, God!!" Nami had shouted at the top of her lungs in joy. Enduring all that suffering to get to Sky Island... and then finding out it was the City of Gold! this must be a reward for being such a good girl, right? God~!" She was saying things that made no sense in the slightest.
"Hey, I thought you were scared of this islands God." It had caused the swordsman to look at her in disbelief at her sudden change.
"Eh? God?" But she turned around with a mocking tone. "What good is he? Is he worth more than gold?"
"Didn't you just say, 'Thank you, God'?" Robin came to question, repeating the words used.
"She's confusing me." Andrea was looking to Andrew while pointing over to Nami.
"This is why I question your choice." Who could only repeat his statement about join the crew and their weirdness.