After leaving the home island of Usopp with their new ship the Going Merry, the new crew had rescued a young woman, called Michell D Iris, from the Ocean and join asks her to join the crew because he thought she was cool, however, one member of the...
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After seeing what she saw, Nami had quickly gotten on the move once Iris flew her down. She was acting like a complete;y different person, heading off like she was on a mission. Now, instead of walking on the ground they were climbing and walking in the trees. But then out of nowhere they were able to hear explosions going off. "What was that?" The navigator asked as they all came to a stop, looking in the direction they heard it come from. "An explosion, obviously." Zoro stated like it was obvious, which it had been. "I heard one earlier too, but this one sounded a little different." Then Robin pointed this fact out, since she heard another one. "Yeah, I noticed that too. It's also a lot closer than the other one." And she hadn't been the only one as Iris also heard it. Nami looked worried and a bit nervous. "Well, let's just keep going!" But then continued balancing on the branch she was one. "What're you all worked up for, Nami?" The swordsman had come to asked as he jumped onto another branch, belonging to the next tree. They were pretty close together so it wasn't that hard for them to get to some of them. "You've been acting strange ever since you came down from that tree." This had been pointed out by the archaeologist. "What did you see?" "I would like to know that too. You didn't let me see." While the angel was flying above them, just in case and to help them. "Even if I Gould you, you wouldn't understa—!" Nami had began slipping on some of the tree's moss, which Iris floated down to grab the girl before slipping off. "This is getting ridiculous! Why is it so hard to walk around here!?" She was getting frustrated as she was hanging in the air just above the branch. "Nami, you were the one that wanted to go this way." This reminder had been given to her. "You were the one who said this way would be faster." While this was added onto the reminder from before. "Quit wasting time and just spit it out!" Zoro was beginning to lose patience and wanted to know what had been seen. "What the hell did you see?" "Never mind, just follow me! This way will lead us to the shore." Was all she told him as Iris was flying up towards him. "If we're fooling you, you should be leading." "The shore?" Robin was a tad confused as she repeated that. "Yeah, that's right. I need to get close enough to be sure." The navigator's feet landed on the branch beside Robin as she spoke, and at the same time, Zoro was swinging on a vine like Tarzan. "Because I still can't believe my own eyes." "Me too." This had been spoken by the dark hair woman, causing the two others to look at her a bit surprised. "I have something bothering me as well. I have no definitive proof... but if my moonstruck hypothesis would happen to be true... it would be interesting. Very interesting." They both looked at her in silence, listening. "My reason to continue living may yet exist." "Your reason?" Iris spoken up, not quite understanding, but she looked at the woman as something from the past came to mind. "Still, it's nothing more than a hypothesis." Robin turned back to them smiling, but the angel couldn't help but see a hint of sadness in it.
The group had continued on their path, Nami still determined even if she almost fell a bunch and if not for Iris would have fallen to her death. "We're nearing the sea." Out of nowhere, Robin has said that which caused Zoro and Iris to glance over to her. "I can hear the sound of waves. Listen." All of them had closely listened as they were told and they were able to hear the faint should have waves. "Right! We're almost there!" Nami was breathing hysterically and looked like a mad woman. "Here we go!" "Just tell us what you saw!" While Zoro hadn't given up on knowing what she saw to completely change her mind. "It seems she didn't here..." Iris stated this as she watched the girl walking away, laughing like she had lost it. She glanced behind her as there was also other sounds mixed in with the waves. "Yeah, a really nasty kinda sound..." it appeared that the only one that didn't hear this other sound had been Nami. "The sound of whole army of people pushing and shoving. Kinda like what we heard in Alabasta." Which meant that on this island, a war was taking place. "Do you think we should be worried?" The two had been asked by Robin. "You don't have to worry about Chopper. He really comes through when he needs to." The swordsman stated this with confidence. "Not about him. About the Captain and the others." She had stated that it was Luffy, Usopp and Sanji she had been speaking about. "After we were abducted, he came after us." "Well, he did really want to come to here, now he has an excuse." The angel had began chuckling as she spoke. "I don't know what God intends to do... but he most likely wouldn't let them pass freely." She did have a point when she said that. "And then there's those guys over there starting their own fight." Zoro added this part onto her statement. "The situation is getting more complicated." She wasn't wrong about that. "Perhaps, however, knowing those three there shouldn't be a problem. You know, other than the kind they bring." Iris didn't have a hint of fear or doubt about this as she spoke. "True." Robin came to chuckle as she agreed with that, meanwhile, Nami slipped off the root she had been climbing and spotted light in between the trees ahead, causing her to take off again. "Oi, Nami! Oi!" Seeing this caused Zoro to shout out to her, but she didn't seem to hear him. Needless to say that they had to follow after her. "Why's she in such a hurry all of a sudden?" This came to be asked as they followed. "Jeez, as soon as we see the sea, she gets all fired up." While the swordsman was sweating buckets as he was also tired. "I don't know she saw, but it definitely wasn't gold or God." The Angel was flying above to pair as she stated this. The reason was because if it had been gold she would be filled with joy and excitement. But if it had been God she would be running for her life in the opposite direction. That's when she looked up and her eyes widen in shock. "No way..." Iris had landed on the roots unable to focus after seeing what she saw. "Look at this...!" Robin had stopped right beside her, seeing the same thing. "Oi, Nami. I've had enough. Tell us what's going—" Zoro had stopped mid sentence as he looked up. He had been stopped by his own shock as he finally came to understand the cause. "It speaks for itself, doesn't it?" Nami had asked him, as her hand was placed on a stone wall in front of her. "Look at this... looks familiar, doesn't it?" She began walking, her hands trailing after her while still on the stone. "It's not a fairy tail. We saw it just this morning." "What the hell does this man?" Zoro had come moving towards the others that were closer to it. "What's something from the ground doing way up here? It's exactly the same." "No, it isn't." Robin spoke up, telling him other wise. "This is a piece of what we saw back on the ground." "A piece?" "It's been bothering me for a while. There shouldn't be any earth on the White White Sea. It was inexplicable this island formed without Island Clouds. Meaning, this island known as Upper Yard... used to be on the ground." As Robin was saying all this, Iris had pulled out her notebook and began writing down what the woman was saying and about what they were seeing. "I knew there was something wrong with that house." Nami had then spoken up. "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." Everything was starting to make sense. "The coastline there was actually a tear in the island. This is a piece of the same island. This island was Jaya!" That was right, this island that they found themselves on, right before them was the other half of Cricket's stone hut. "So, some time in the past, the island split apart... and half of it ended up in the sky." Things were starting to add up. "But, how could that be?" "The same way we, ourselves, come here by." Their heads had shifted to Iris that had been silently writing away who had a large smile across her face as her eyes were sparkling as she wrote. "The land which Norland spoke of, the City of Gold... it's been in the sky the entire time!"
